Re: A new name for software failure : the glitch

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

W dniu sobota, 4 sierpnia 2012 20:18:21 UTC+2 użytkownik (Nieznane) napisał:

> In finance, software failure can be very expensive very fast.

Interestingly, this can also mean that there is something fundamentally broken with the way we do "finance" today. If you have a broken structure, then a genuine glitch in one place can turn the whole into dust. It's still a glitch and the actual problem is in the structure - the glitch can be merely a trigger for the collapse and the same glitch could be much less catastrophic if it happens in a structure that is in overall more resilient.

Note: I'm not trying to justify poor-quality software. I just think that this particular case shows that the problem of responsibility is more complex and cannot be reasoned about by just looking at a single piece of the puzzle - it is a *system* problem. The structure of "finance" today is just a shit waiting to hit the fan and the responsibility for this state is certainly not on the software side alone.

(Now ducking away to write my trading algos in Ada. ;-) )

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