Modern society relies on 'dangerously fragile' software

Are we ready for a civilization that's based on pervasive computing and increasingly complex "systems of systems," all dependent upon software written by unlicensed people calling themselves programmers? In this Computerworld interview, software guru Grady Booch, chief scientist at IBM Rational, talks about the enduring difficulties of software development and the complexity of today's systems: Software [development] has been and will remain fundamentally hard. Most of the interesting systems today are no longer just systems by themselves, but they tend to be systems of systems. It is the set of them working in harmony. We don’t have a lot of good processes or analysis tools to really understand how those things behave. Many systems look dangerously fragile. The bad news is they are fragile. This is another force that will lead us to the next era of how we build software systems.

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