At a recent computer software engineering 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.
content to stay on board. With his team's software, he reasoned, the plane
was unlikely to even taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off.
