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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by fidotron on Friday December 08, 2023 @05:31PM (#38575548)
It does though. My example of adding two ints within a known finite range would operate to spec 100% of the time.

You would have to introduce things like tolerance to hardware failure, but that is outside the spec of the software as stated.

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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by sanderjd on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:11PM (#38584163)
Yes, but that's not real software.
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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by fidotron on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:45PM (#38584488)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by sanderjd on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:33AM (#38589390)
Some people obviously aren't true Scotsman... I'm from the US and have no attachment to Scotland; if I claimed to be a Scotsman and you pointed out that I'm not, and I said "well that's just the no true Scotsman fallacy!", then I would be totally full of it.

In the same way I am not a real Scotsman, your toy example of an easily specified snippet of a function that doesn't do anything useful is not real software.

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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by bluGill on Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:25PM (#38588102)
Sure, but adding two ints is trivial. Hello world probably operates to spec all the time too. Almost all software is vastly more compelx and isn't perfect.
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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by philipwhiuk on Sunday December 10, 2023 @11:32AM (#38592703)
> You would have to introduce things like tolerance to hardware failure, but that is outside the spec of the software as stated.

No-one in the real world gives a damn about your 'spec of the software as stated'

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