Making computers work

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:22:34 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> Computers behave deterministically[1]. Software behaves 
> deterministically. The combination of these two things lets us produce 
> software that works 100% of the time. That's harder than getting to 99% 
> of the time, but even so accepting the "Make it work 99% of the time and 
> add a bunch of preferences to let the 1% make it work themselves" 
> approach is accepting inferior software. We aim high, and we fairly 
> consistently hit. And that's how it should be.

That's all very well in practice, but does it work in theory ? 

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