[1774] in Humor
HUMOR: Anecdote of the Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Mon Dec 23 12:41:52 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:30:05 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:21:57 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
From: Sterling Anthony Shew <sashew@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender's Nativename=mhane@OPTIMAL.COM
At a recent software engineering management 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. When asked what he would do, he replied that he would be
quite content to stay onboard.
With his team's software, he said, the plane was unlikely to even
taxi as far as the runway, let alone take off.
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