From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!floyd!whuxlb!gummo!harpo!seismo!rocheste!sher
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Softwhere wrot
Article-I.D.: rocheste.1364
Posted: Wed Apr 27 00:46:39 1983
Received: Fri Apr 29 10:11:43 1983

From: David.Sher
This letter has a purpose other than to announce my inability to spell
under adverse conditions.  I have experienced an example of softwhere
rot.  While at Yale I wrote a full-screen accounting editor (in
DEC-FORTRAN of all things arghh!).  About a year later I got a call
from the treasury department telling me that the editor would not run.
They were right, it wouldn't.  No bug fixes could be necessary since I
had not touched the program in years. Recompiling the program was all
that was necessary to make it work again.  Now if you want to be scared
consider NORAD.

-David Sher (ofttimes AI project)