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This was written by a guy on BIX.  He is currently a software geek with
Johnson Space Center, in Houston, supporting the Shuttle program.  I
believe his attitude has application to some of what has been said here in
the not-too-distant past about software quality for diving equipment.

>The mission of my organization is to preserve human life and the prestige
>of our nation in our exploration of space.  Our goal (which we have met
>with no exception for 20 years) is to deliver man-rated software to NASA
>which is failure free and indeed has no detectable faults during any
>stated operational profile. 
>
>Try to imagine your organization releasing an application that shows no
>sign of significant error in its execution in 20 years.  Imagine doing
>that roughly 80 times with a standing development team of around 200
>people.  Imagine how frustrating it is for me to find 20 or so obvious
>bugs in each new release of Microsoft Word. 

I agree with him.
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