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> >   We've spent the last half-century making computers faster, with modest,
> > or sometimes negative, progress on preventing or catching software bugs,
> > so the number of executed bugs/second must be orders of magnitude larger.
>
> Certainly true.  There are also a lot more car wrecks nowadays than
> there were 100 years ago.  ;-)

The fatalities/vehicle mile have decreased by roughly one order of
magnitude.  Have the number of bugs/line of code done a lot better?