Everyone who writes safety critical software should read this

[Walter Bright]

On 10/30/2013 12:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 07:14:50PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> Ha. And yet where do we see companies pouring all that money into?
> Precisely into improving quality, improving test coverage, inventing
> better screening for hiring engineers, and in many places, requiring
> pieces of paper to certify that candidate X has successfully completed
> program Y sponsored by large corporation Z, which purportedly has a good
> reputation that therefore (by some inscrutible leap of logic) translates
> to proof that candidate X is capable of producing better code, which
> therefore equates to the product being made ... safer? Hmm. Something
> about the above line of reasoning seems to be fishy somewhere. :P

There's still plenty of reason to improve software quality.

I just want to emphasize that failsafe system design is not about improving quality.