From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11e38e162c16b469 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.204.130.7 with SMTP id q7mr1055244bks.2.1344110395295; Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: m12ni71074bkm.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A new name for software failure : the glitch Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 12:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <87cbd479-ccb4-4253-9afd-187a1469353b@googlegroups.com> References: <2bd4ae1c-c8c7-4553-9f7f-9b6915b30c33@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 46.171.80.166 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1344110395 20783 127.0.0.1 (4 Aug 2012 19:59:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 19:59:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <2bd4ae1c-c8c7-4553-9f7f-9b6915b30c33@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=46.171.80.166; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-04T12:58:01-07:00 List-Id: W dniu sobota, 4 sierpnia 2012 20:18:21 UTC+2 u=C5=BCytkownik (Nieznane) na= pisa=C5=82: > In finance, software failure can be very expensive very fast. Interestingly, this can also mean that there is something fundamentally bro= ken with the way we do "finance" today. If you have a broken structure, the= n 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 merel= y a trigger for the collapse and the same glitch could be much less catastr= ophic 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 th= is 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 puzz= le - it is a *system* problem. The structure of "finance" today is just a s= hit waiting to hit the fan and the responsibility for this state is certain= ly not on the software side alone. (Now ducking away to write my trading algos in Ada. ;-) ) --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.msobczak.com * http://www.inspirel.com