Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!inmos!conor From: conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: software engineers Message-ID: <1482@brwa.inmos.co.uk> Date: 18 May 89 09:22:44 GMT References: <854@odyssey.ATT.COM> <10231@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <12701@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <1320@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <990@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Reply-To: conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK. Lines: 33 In article <990@syma.sussex.ac.uk> jamesg@syma.sussex.ac.uk (James S Goodlet) writes: >In article emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: >>Have you ever seen a civil engineer debugging a bridge after it has been built? > >Indeed, the Erskine bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow (Scotland) >was heavily "debugged", notably with changes to the railings at the >sides of the bridge to change its behaviour in cross winds (I believe >the bridge was resonating slightly). > >Not on bridges but related, consider the infamous M25 motorway around >London, England. This was repaired (several thousand tarmac joints >replaced) *before* it had even opened. And now, only a few years after >it was completed, it is being extensively widened. These are real bugs. This reminds me of the idea of asking someone to Beta-test a Jumbo jet! to beat the line munger.... -- Conor O'Neill, Software Group, INMOS Ltd. JANET: conor@inmos.co.uk Disclaimer: All views are my own, UUCP: uunet!inmos-c!conor not those of INMOS. INTERNET: @col.hp.com:conor@inmos-c