Examples of Programming Gone Wrong?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday October 27, 2002 @06:43AM from the oops! dept.

LightForce3 asks: "I'm a beginning CS student, and in my studies I've come across examples of programmer error causing very large problems, such as the Ariane 5 failure and the Therac-25 accidents, often as tales of caution to beginner programmers such as myself. My (morbid?) curiosity has been piqued, and I'm looking for other examples of programmer error leading to serious problems. After all, it is better to learn from the mistakes of others than from your own, right? ;) What programming-related accidents, incidents, and failures, both well-known and obscure, do Slashdot readers know about, and are there any good resources for researching these?"

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Re:Can We Say Google? by Gordonjcp · 2002-10-27 08:05 · Score: 3, Offtopic

Please stop all this "STFW" crap. It's easy to search the web, but there may be people out there reading slashdot who haven't put their tale of programming woe on a web page. In the time it took you to post that crap, you could have thought for a moment, then not said anything.