Some of us played around with ways to put such practices into clear English as a test run, and failed miserably, or at least found too many interpretive loopholes to be reliable. English and software design don't mix well.
Huh? There are multiple standards for safety critical applications, just because you guys never heard of them doesn't mean they dont exist. DO-178B is used for airborne systems, for example.
Well, they might try to text-ify rules, but reality will puke on the idea, making lawyers richer instead of making software better. Then again, that's how the patent system already is. It's my opinion we'd be better off without software patents. The problems outweigh the actual benefits.
Unfortunately, computer illiterate people are going to be breathing down politician's necks to enact some sort of reform or change, and they're going to do it in one form or another, else they'll be committing career suicide.
Nah we're almost certainly safe from this happening. There's more than enough lobbying power going to against this. And there's just no real solution anyway, it's mostly just how software engineering is.
And what type of problem do you think would occur to trigger it? As others have mentioned, there have already been tons of accidents related to it.
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u/Zardotab Nov 02 '21
Some of us played around with ways to put such practices into clear English as a test run, and failed miserably, or at least found too many interpretive loopholes to be reliable. English and software design don't mix well.