[SystemSafety] Big claims and duff data

Paul Sherwood paul.sherwood at codethink.co.uk
Thu Sep 20 22:55:48 CEST 2018


On 2018-09-20 16:28, Olwen Morgan wrote:
> Here's a challenge: I claim that the cheapest way to do anything is to
> get it right first time. Do any of the leprechaun-quoters disagree
> with that?

Applying your own logic from other emails ... it may be cheaper not to 
do it at all:

- demonstrate that the thing is not necessary
- adopt a previously done version of the thing

> Or, to put it another way, what serious objections are
> there to doing all you can to PREVENT defects in software?

You haven't just "put it another way", you've completely moved the 
goalposts. I have no objections to preventing defects.




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