At a recent software engineering management course in the US,
the participants were given an awkward question to answer. "If you
had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team of
programmers had been responsible for the flight control software
how many of you would disembark immediately?"
Among the ensuing forest of raised hands, only one man sat
motionless. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would
be quite content to stay onboard.
With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even
taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off.
