The secret to bug-free code
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'In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Atari sold more software to more
people than any other company on Earth. Most of that software was
burned into ROM (read only memory) chips. Errors in ROM could not be
corrected. You had to trash them and make new chips. Atari made a
home computer that had an operating system in ROM. I was really
impressed with that. What amazing confidence they must have in their
programming to risk putting that stuff into ROM. How did they do it?
'I took a job as a researcher at Atari’s corporate lab. This allowed
me to find out how Atari did it. This was their secret: They would
try the stuff out, and if it seemed to work, they would send it to
the factory. They were lucky. Their luck ran out when executives
decided that the E.T. game did not need more testing. The
company did not survive that decision.'
(From How JavaScript Works, ch. 23, by Douglas Crockford.)
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Authors: ag