Was FORTRAN buggy 4326

I don't believe that there are good emulators. Sure, they're better than before. But they are not good where good means they work with a 99.9% success. Doesn't anybody believe in Murphy's Law anymore?

I'm am not stating that you should not use them; I am dictating that you should never believe that they reflect reality.

This is only possible in applications. You cannot do this when the project is hardware that has never existed before now.

A human notices anomolies. A human notices things that are successful but shouldn't be. A human plays; thus a human will produce unusual scenarios that a canned script will never produce.

To rely solely on test scripts such as you are using is an event waiting to have an accident. You become smug and careless; everybody gets this way.

And you still only have 24 hours each day to do your work, just as we had. That processing power will remain constant, cannot be increased and will always decrease (as you get older you lose your stamina). Now, you can spend 75% of that creative time writing tests for every mistake you made during the other 25% or you can spend half that in production mode.

I don't see this kind of ratio happening in OS parts of hardware development.

If bugs are coming back when other things are changed, then the previous fixes were bandaids. I suspect this is an aspect of having to use HLLs for development.

BAH