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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel... by throwaway2048 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:12PM (#19694823)
You can argue that no code ever has bugs by that logic, after all you defined the program to do one thing, and it did it, it was merely human expectation that was in error.
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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel... by crimsonalucard on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:49PM (#19696956)
That's what I'm arguing. Code can be proven correct against a formal spec.

However, because we don't do proofs in software, there are bugs.

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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel... by throwaway2048 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:52PM (#19696971)
Code is itself a specification.
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Re:How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Devel... by crimsonalucard on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:56AM (#19697609)
It can be, but generally it is not.
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