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by structural
3877 days ago
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In a similar vein, what government agency has the time or money to actually review every single diagram for a building to be constructed? It's actually the same problem: an extremely complex object is being constructed, a critical failure within which could leave many people nearby injured or dead. The solution is actually somewhat ingenious: License a small group of people to go analyze such things, let them organize themselves independently, but require them to sign off on the design. It turns out that with their license and livelihood on the line, enough people aren't willing to sign off on terrible, shoddy crap that the system mostly works. Perhaps it's time that software grew up and became something closer to a real engineering discipline? |
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Filled with red tape, inaccessibility, limitations?
No thanks. I think we've done a very decent job of self-regulation, licensure and review have fared well for most* life-threatening software systems.