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Oh please. Your arguments are exactly the same as creationists' arguments against evolution. There exists no definitive proof for a chaotic system.

The whole point of software engineering is to manage and avoid complexity, not to obfuscate/complexify your software beyond any control and then weasel your way out of it by saying that your software can't be proven wrong. The fact that no proof can be given either way is a failure of the design process, not of the claimant.

"The fact that software has an execution pathway leading to something bad does not mean that this pathway can ever be entered" On the contrary, that's exactly what the term "execution pathway" implies.

"there were no electronic faults in the cars that could have caused the sudden-acceleration problems." No electronic faults? Sounds to me like they tested for wire insulation, not runaway code.




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