[SystemSafety] A small taste of what we're up against

Derek M Jones derek at knosof.co.uk
Wed Oct 24 14:32:44 CEST 2018


Olwen,

>> A rambling anecdote containing no evidence.
>>
>> Were you hoping that readers will have forgotten the statement at the
>> top, by the time they had reached the bottom (assuming they had not
>> given up before the end)?
>>
>>
> As you know, Derek, both you and I have been on lists where I have 
> deliberately stoked up arguments and I'm pretty inured even to vitriolic 
> exchanges. This, from you, is a disagreeable surprise.

If software engineering is to become actual engineering, then we have
to stop giving people a free pass when they make claims about evidence.

These days I take a hard line on claims of evidence.

I'm willing to nail gluteus maximus to the floor.

-- 
Derek M. Jones           Software analysis
tel: +44 (0)1252 520667  blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com


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