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by ipython 1598 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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A small fraction of software developers work on safety-critical software. Safety-critical software is (or at least should be) developed with quite different methodologies, as the cost/benefit assessment is very different regarding development speed against number and nature of defects.

If there are lessons written in blood for the development of safety-critical software, they haven't propagated to the wider field of software development.

(Disclaimer: I don't work on safety-critical software.)