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| At a recent software engineering management course in the US, the participants were given an awkward question to answer. | |
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| "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software how many of you would disembark immediately?" | |
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| Among the ensuing forest of raised hands, only one man sat motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be quite content to stay onboard. | |
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| I most certainly did not understand why he would be the only one so I proceeded to ask him that very question. | |
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| With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off. | |
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