On: Underwater Chain Saws

[jeffrallen]

Leonard's Law: Software will be as bad as it's users can tolerate, and no worse. VHDL compilers are catastrophically bad, because electrical engineers have to tolerate them and make tape-out. FADECs don't normally crash airplanes because pilots don't like when that happens.

[qchris → jeffrallen]

Is there an article/primary source on this that you can point up? I spent a few minutes searching but couldn't seem to find anything.

[jeffrallen → qchris]

It's next to Neves' Law ("The harder a bug is to find, the smaller the diff to fix it will be.") in the deleted list in Wikipedia.

They both were discovered by former colleagues of mine. And named by me.

[qchris → jeffrallen]

Thank you!