C is Brittle D is Plastic

[Walter Bright]

On 4/8/2026 3:02 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> By all accounts, we should be seeing a lot more catastrophic level problems with 
> articles on software failures in aircraft, yet we are not. The surface area is 
> simply too large for humans to be the only ones catching problems.

Problems where the backups take over do not make the news. Some systems are even 
triply redundant.

When I was at Boeing, the backup system did not use the same hardware, 
programming language, or algorithms. Different teams did the programming, and 
were not allowed to communicate with the other team.