I saw this on Hacker News today .
Radiotherapy machine runs out of control with disastrous consequences
https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-c ... therac-25/
Bad coding , poor testing and inadequate training of end-users of the system .
A very sorry tale indeed , and a salutary lesson !
When a "trivial" bug becomes lethal .
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When a "trivial" bug becomes lethal .
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Re: When a "trivial" bug becomes lethal .
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.
Re: When a "trivial" bug becomes lethal .
There were a few other linked articles relating to software problems. Fortunately I've only had one critical bug in software i developed way back before Windows became an OS in its own right. Then It was a dBase program that failed when the end of month stats were produced. After trawling through thousands of lines of code, I found that I'd missed one full stop. Fortunately no lives depended upon my code, nor were there Millions of dollars involved. It does go to show how an innocuous thing like a full stop can bring the whole house of cards down.
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