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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (22072)	12/9/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Nick Kline	Read Replies (2) of 24154

<< Wouldn't it be worth it if just one less plane crashed or was shot down because of computer error? >> Forgot to respond to this part. Sure, it would be worth it. But remember when the airbus plane crashed during testing manuvers in Europe a few years ago? That software had been "certified" by a board of software engineering experts. And there are the numerous examples of such things. I don't think that "certified experts" are proof against those kinds or problems. It's not like building a bridge. Building software is still more art than engineering. In 100 years (50 years?) people will laugh at us, that we built new programs mostly from scratch, with no automatic tools for verifying program correctness, that we still used portable assembler (C or C++), that could crash and overwrite memory... -nick

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