Royal Pain

[David Thornton]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:45:04AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
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>>I love that quote.  All of them actually.
>>
>>Perfection is a waste of time for us, but I'm not sure it will be for
>>Sony and the QRIO.
>>
>>Give them a few years.  I'm sure they've already got plans for Mars, the
>>moon, and any number of other places.
>>
>>The fuzzy controllers(?) in it are about the most perfect I've heard of.
>>
>>http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/
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>>(I'd recommend the Flash presentation.)
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>>Frankly, I don't know what to make of this "toy."
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>Well I am certainly happy that not all companies (and programmers) think
>perfection is a waste of time.  Companies that work on automation
>software for trains and subways, and software for air planes and such
>certainly live by a much higher standard (and should too).  Companies
>working on control software for medical equiment certainly should too
>(although there has been a few cases where they didn't, with unfortunate
>results).
>
>If all you are doing is writing a web browser, you can get away with
>being sloppy if you really think that's the way to go, although why
>would you want to?  I think it is more interesting to make software bug
>free when possible and to make it do excactly what it is supposed to at
>all times.  In some cases the specifications aren't accurate enough to
>do that, but you can still try.  I suppose the bottom line is often what
>drives people to cut corners.  Fortunately the bottom line likely won't be
>there next time if a comapny doing safety critical stuff cuts corners.
>
>Lennart Sorensen
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bug free != perfect
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