[SystemSafety] Software reliability (or whatever you would prefer to call it)

[C. Michael Holloway]

On 3/8/15 10:03 AM, Littlewood, Bev wrote a whole lot of stuff, but I 
only want to comment on the following:
> But I did think Michael’s dig at academics was a bit below the belt. ...
I did not make a dig at academics.  I made a true statement about my 
experience, using language that was perhaps a tad bit less kind than it 
could have been, but nevertheless accurate.

Surely no one on this list would dispute the existence of academics who 
"seem to be swayed by arguments of dubious cogency and evidence of 
questionable credibility."   Just as no one on this list should dispute 
the same statement if "academics" were replaced by "government 
researchers", "practicing engineers", "certification authorities", 
"professional philosophers", or any other group.  If everyone on the 
list is honest with his or herself, neither should anyone dispute the 
statement if "academics" is replaced by his or her own name, modified 
only by an explicit qualifier such as "sometimes".  I certainly don't 
dispute it as applied to myself.

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/*cMh*/

*C. Michael Holloway*, Senior Research Engineer

The words in this message are mine alone; neither blame nor credit NASA 
for them.
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