RE: Are bad developer libraries the problem with M$ software?

Another interesting perspective:

http://www.research.att.com/projects/cyclone/.

Other industries in general view safety and quality as a combination of better user training AND better tools.

The aviation industry has lowered the PPM (per passenger mile) death rate over 70 years by over 99% (things were pretty bad in the '30s) by improving pilot training and knowledge AND by relentless improvement in the "tools". Accidents are studied so as improve the equipment and reduce the likelihood that the fallible humans flying the planes will make (the same) mistake (twice).

It's not enough to say developers could avoid problems using the buggy and error prone tools available to them today if they would just do a better job - it's both true and irrelevant.

AT&T's cyclone project highlights a better approach.

But the software industry is young - it will grow up at some point when the end users paying the bills get tired of all the crashes. Just like the airplane biz. Received on Tue Nov 19 23:28:40 2002