Re: Faulty languages and Liability

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"David Botton" <David@Botton.com> wrote in message
news:ugnt00ppv51s23@corp.supernews.com...
> I have been saying for year the day would come that software authors would
> start to be found liable for their bugs... the time is approaching....


I have no problem with tighting up software development legislation, but
governments and courts tend to screw things up.  If they create legislation
saying "you must build bug free software", then we all might as well go home
and start looking for a job in the local supermarket.  After all how many
programs are 100% bug free?

If they say "the software must do what it says on the tin and do so reliably
atleast 95% of the time, and you must avoid bugs as much as possible", then
great.  It means that software must do what it's suppost to, it must be
reliable and robust and relatively bug free.  That's what most of us here
strive to provide anyway, right?

A balance between reliability and reality is what's called for, but who
honostly thinks that's what we'll get?


Chris