"Sam Goldwasser" bravely wrote to "All" (12 Jul 05 20:05:45)
--- on the heady topic of " Weird Microwave problem - trips breaker when you =
shut the door!"

SG From: Sam Goldwasser
SG Xref: aeinews sci.electronics.repair:53055

SG "Asimov" writes:

Why don't software engineers get it already?

SG Remenber the Airbus A320? that crashed at its maiden airshow
SG appearance? That wsa a software bug.

Sure do. The program kicked in the thrust reversers because it thought
it had already landed. Faulty input or bad coding? Take your pick but
the problem was the inputs weren't properly validated and the program
jumped into a state that was obviously, to a human at least, wrong to
be in. A program should never be able to jump into wrong states out of
sequence like that. Just stupid!

A*s*i*m*o*v

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