Foreword
What Do You Expect—Perfection?
A few words from Jack Ganssle …
Why are so many firmware projects so late and so bug-ridden? A lot of theories abound about software’s complexity and other contributing factors, but I believe the proximate cause is that coding is not something suited to Homo Sapiens. It requires a level of accuracy that is truly super-human. And most of us are not super-human.
Cavemen did not have to get every gazelle they hunted—just enough to keep from starving. Farmers never expect the entire bag of seeds to sprout; a certain wastage is implicit and accepted. Any merchant providing a service expects to delight most, but not all, customers.
The kid who brings home straight A grades thrills his parents. Yet we get an ...
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