[118593] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Science Bloopers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Firebeard)
Sun Oct 3 20:43:38 1999
To: hell@einstein.ssz.com
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From: Firebeard <stend+hell@sten.org>
Date: 03 Oct 1999 19:26:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jim Choate's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:31:50 -0500 (CDT)"
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Reply-To: Firebeard <stend+hell@sten.org>
>>>>> Jim Choate writes:
JC> ----- Forwarded message from Eric Cordian -----
JC> No crypto relevance, but an argument for better science education.
I'm afraid I don't see it. In the first instance, the company
processing the uranium were deliberately using an illegal procedure
because it was faster - the scientific knowledge was ignored. In the
second, the problem wasn't a lack of scientific knowledge, but a lack
of communication and documentation. Perhaps a better computer
"science" education would have encouraged them to write better
documented code, but I doubt it - the wealth of poorly documented,
unmaintainable code is a product of the same short-sighted greed (or
frugality) and laziness that the nuclear accident was.
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