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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by zamalek on Saturday December 09, 2023 @03:43PM (#38585866)
0 bugs is actually impossible. A cosmic ray can flip a bit and change the behavior of your software. We live in a fundamentally unreliable universe.

We aren't taught how to write reliable software because very few people know how to write reliable software. It doesn't help that academia has a hard crush on OOP, which is a bag of accidental complexity - and complexity is a breeding ground for unreliability.

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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by BobaFloutist on Sunday December 10, 2023 @04:11PM (#38595095)
I think if a cosmic ray flips the bit and changes the behavior of your software, you can still reasonably brag that you wrote 0-bug code. It's not your fault that happened, you didn't do that. The code you wrote had 0 bugs.
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