Monday, June 1, 2009

Software

At a recent software engineering management course in the US, the
participants were given an awkward question to answer. "If you had just
boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been
responsible for the flight control software how many of you would disembark
immediately?"

Among the ensuing forest of raised hands, only one man sat motionless. When
asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content to stay
onboard.

With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even taxi as
far as the runway, let alone take off.

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