Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Fri, 03 Oct 2014 10:38:21 -0700
schrieb Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:

> Just as within an airplane, to use Walter's 
> favorite analogy, the seat entertainment system is physically and 
> logically separated from flight control systems thus a fault within the 
> former has no impact on the latter.

And just like the Erlang runtime, the electrical components
could be faulty or operating beyond their limits and cause the
aircraft to shutdown.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519705/Blaze-scare-BA-Jumbo-Serious-electrical-sparked-planes-flight-entertainment-system.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
http://www.iasa.com.au/folders/sr111/747IFE-fire.htm

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Marco