From the beginning of the software industry, people have been responsible for writing programs. A large number of decisions go into every program written. People have to be vigilant not to introduce defective behavior as they make those complex interconnected decisions.
Over time, the level of detail implicit in those decisions has risen to higher and higher abstractions. Early software developers worked at the machine level. Modern software is increasingly written in higher-level languages. In the past few decades, managed runtimes have improved in performance and productivity ...
