By: dan (nospam.delete@this.thanks.com), July 5, 2007 11:36 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
>That word "unlikely" is rather worrying. I prefer "never".
No problem, if you're willing to be pay a few billion dollars for a two decade old cmoputer.
NASA almost achieves this for some mission critical software. The number of bugs per decade in their software can be measured on one hand. Of course, the core functionality hasn't changed in two decades and the total cost is on the order of $10k per line of code. It would probably only be a few orders of magnitude more expensive to chase out all of the bugs.
No problem, if you're willing to be pay a few billion dollars for a two decade old cmoputer.
NASA almost achieves this for some mission critical software. The number of bugs per decade in their software can be measured on one hand. Of course, the core functionality hasn't changed in two decades and the total cost is on the order of $10k per line of code. It would probably only be a few orders of magnitude more expensive to chase out all of the bugs.