NIST Estimates Sloppy Coding Costs $60 Billion/Year

An anonymous reader submits: "Computerworld is reporting on a government study just released that software bugs are costing the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion each year, with more than half of the cost borne by end users and the remainder by developers and vendors. Better testing could allegedly cut that by one-third."

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Re:Who are you trashing?

[bryan1945]

(Yes, unlike a bunch of people here, I DO have another life outside of coding)

Hee, hee, hee... yup, and I have a 80 foot yacht for sale.....

For example-
...it took us two years ('96 and '97)to get all to crap out one of our developers put in in a state of demetia...

Kinda scary when: 1) Your company is "crapping" out people; 2) it took 2 years to crap out said people; 3) one developer crapped = screwed?; 4) A basic grasp of English grammar is way beyond your abilities.

Maybe you should stop claiming how great you are since you have no real job (SW dev and public policy- I've done that starting with my 1st freeware program I gave to my township.)

When you move out of your parent's house you will find out that you actually have to really talk to industry people; oopps, I'm sorry, you are so important that CIOs will just flock to you and automatically accept your survey results.

Making sweeping claims about anything you have not investigated is not the best way to fame, either:

Examples- "Basically, take an informal study..."; kind of like this?

"contact some industry leaders (send email to some CIOs...."; like you have some CIOs' private emails.

"do intense follow up"; reiterating info that other people have already done is not considered "intense" nor "follow up"; it's considered plagarism.

I always need a couple of sub-contractors to do my dirty work, if you ever need a job counting cables let me know (I wouldn't trust you to do anything more than that after your post).