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Are Software Bugs Inevitable? Part 1: FORTRAN and the Denver Airport Baggage Disaster | Curious Minds Podcast
Curious Minds Podcast
English - January 23, 2017 13:03 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 68 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Software errors and random bugs are rather common: We’ve all seen the infamous Windows “blue screen of death”... But is there really nothing we can do about it? Are these errors – from small bugs to catastrophic mistakes – inevitable? In this episode, we'll tell the story of FORTRAN, the groundbreaking high-level computer language, and the sad, sad tale of the Denver Airport Baggage Disaster. Don't laugh, it's a serious matter.
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