Re:What Should We Do to Prevent Software from Failing?
by x0x0 on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:34PM
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You're ignoring cost. Want to build software like we (were supposed to) build 737s -- to always work? Watch your costs go up by (rough guess) 10-100x.
We've generally made a decisive choice for functionality and cost over bugs.
Which isn't to say that I don't agree that there are areas: self-driving cars, airplanes (required here), human diagnostic software (already required here), etc that should have much tougher standards. But across the board ... I don't think people are willing to pay for that.
We've generally made a decisive choice for functionality and cost over bugs.
Which isn't to say that I don't agree that there are areas: self-driving cars, airplanes (required here), human diagnostic software (already required here), etc that should have much tougher standards. But across the board ... I don't think people are willing to pay for that.