Re: (whimsy) Bug-free software

[Terrence Enger <tenger () iSeries-guru com>]

t 19:10 2004-02-05 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Now of course you might be talking about higher-level requirements
> documents, in which case you have something of a point - but when a
> malfunction occurs, whether the bug is in the code written to implement
> the requirements document or in the requirements document itself is a
> distinction of little import to the end-user with the problem; all it
> affects is whom to blame, and that much only at levels at which there
> is a distinction between the sources of the two.

As Dick Francis put it in another context: It does not
matter to a bettor whether the jockey fell of the horse, or
the horse fell and took the jockey down with him.  The
bettor loses either way.  Still, it makes a world of
difference to the jockey.