Dave Thomas: Learning From Mistakes
Dave Thomas: “Computer programming is perhaps half the age of powered flight. We face different issues; our mistakes can cause inconvenience, but rarely loss of life. But perhaps still there’s something that programmers can learn from the attitudes of pilots. Is it conceivable that we might one day have a way for developers to report problems [like accident reporting in aviation] during development to some anonymous forum so that others might learn? Could we start to use our own history as a tool to help us all improve?”