From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/10
Date: 1999-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5090dnp53121@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 384ffd52.888393602@newsnew.draper.com
Roger Racine wrote in message <384ffd52.888393602@newsnew.draper.com>...
>On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:47:21 GMT, Richard D Riehle
><laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> <...> My point of view is simply that
>>no other branch of engineering, except software practice, consistently
>>uses the word "bug" to label its errors and defects. It will always be
>>difficult to take software seriously as an engineering discipline as long
>>as its practitioners insist on placing the blame for its mistakes on
>>some mystical creature. It is a poetic appelation with little engineering
>>value.
>Electrical Engineers also use the term.
Being electrical (telecommunications) engineer for many years
I've never heard the term "bug" applied to anything in electrical
engineering.
What I've heard so far was "fault" or "defect" as most
commonly used words in industry.
One may encounter " faulty circuit" or "defective circuit"
but not "buggy circuit" :-)
Or at Draper laboratory this is different ? :-)
I doubt this.
May be long long time ago when relays were widely used
in electric equipment that could be the case especially in
tropics but now it sounds amusing.
But I should admit that I've seen once such accident in one
remote place not a long time ago . Wall clock with
electrical mechanism which was not placed in the protective
box was spoiled by cockroaches.
Regards,
Vladimir Olensky
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 0:00 Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Michael P. Card
1999-12-01 0:00 ` ld
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky [this message]
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Jerry Maple
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` P.S> Norby
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-02 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Ronald Caudill
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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