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Computer science, software engineering, and their disregard for safety: it's like giving a kid a loaded gun
Yonatan Zunger in the Boston Globe: Computer science is a field of engineering. Its purpose is to build systems to be used by others. But even though it has had its share of events which could have prompted a deeper reckoning — from the Therac-25 accidents, in which misprogrammed radiation