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Is the idea of bug-free software realistic?

Survey period: 3 Oct 2016 to 10 Oct 2016

We're expected to do this every day, and some programmers claim they are getting close. Will it happen?

OptionVotes% 
Yes, absolutely8611.45
Yes, but it will require a leap in technology and tools628.26
Not sure466.13
No. We'll get close, but never perfect45560.59
No, we won't even get close to that ideal10213.58



 
GeneralRe: Maybe it was Pin
den2k882-Oct-16 23:26
professionalden2k882-Oct-16 23:26 
GeneralDepends... Pin
Sander Rossel2-Oct-16 20:45
professionalSander Rossel2-Oct-16 20:45 
GeneralNever Pin
Midi_Mick2-Oct-16 20:05
professionalMidi_Mick2-Oct-16 20:05 
GeneralI think not Pin
mirdana2-Oct-16 20:04
mirdana2-Oct-16 20:04 
GeneralRe: I think not Pin
den2k882-Oct-16 21:05
professionalden2k882-Oct-16 21:05 
GeneralRe: I think not Pin
mirdana2-Oct-16 22:15
mirdana2-Oct-16 22:15 
GeneralRe: I think not Pin
Mycroft Holmes2-Oct-16 23:06
professionalMycroft Holmes2-Oct-16 23:06 
GeneralRe: I think not Pin
den2k882-Oct-16 23:13
professionalden2k882-Oct-16 23:13 
He wants no button, everything must be done silently and automatically - in this case the recovery from fatal errors on hidden moving piston. He doesn't want to access the freaking diagnostic interface when something of this gravity happens - he doesn't want to learn the functions of the 4 buttons and 10 labels on that interface.

Poor thing, he's only the chief supervisor of two entire production lines of one of the biggest food industries of Italy (big exporter too), how could I ever ask some compentence of him.

PS: critical errors on that muthaf piston happen 1/2 times a week, because of course the engineer responsible for integrating the hardware in the machine (me) wasn't included in the loop during the selection of the hardware piece, so we ended up with a piston built in China with the firmware and the documentation written by a student who was writing his graduating thesis. Of course it works like sunshine.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver

When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

GeneralRe: I think not Pin
mirdana3-Oct-16 2:35
mirdana3-Oct-16 2:35 
GeneralRe: I think not Pin
den2k883-Oct-16 2:39
professionalden2k883-Oct-16 2:39 

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