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Therac-25...now there's a blast from the past

jasonp@... 27th Nov 2007

I have lost count of the number of times I've been told with a straight face "Come on, bugs in software have never been responsible for any loss of life." I guess the biggest problem is that these incidents get covered up so well. It's a shame that the author of this article seems to want to play an active role in the coverup by purposely omitting them. Problems only get better by shining a spotlight on them, not by ignoring them. The current state of software development is a disgrace. I've worked with one company in the past that even seems to relish in their defects. They took to calling bugs in their software "treasures". Unfortunately it's going to take a disaster of epic proportions to open up some eyes.