I got this the other day: "there seems to be a lot of buzz out in the general public regarding software bugs".
Attached to this was an article from The Economist in 2003 plus one from 2010. To me, this doesn't seem to be a "lot" of buzz. But what …
more ...Some folks love the twin ideas that (1) "someone" might break the API rules and (2) they must write lots of bonus code to "prevent" problems.
Sigh.
There are three distinct things here.
The E. W. Dijkstra Archive is a collection of over 1,000 manuscripts that EWD sent around during his career.
This Stack Overflow question ("explaining software development to management") had a really brilliant comment on one of the answers.
Analogies are always leaky, and you will end up with proposed …more ...