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Intuitive Bug-less Software?

Posted by michael on from the dream-on dept.

Starlover writes "In the latest java.sun.com feature at Sun's Java site, Victoria Livschitz takes on some ideas of Jaron Lanier on how to make software less buggy. She makes a couple of interesting points. First, making software more 'intuitive' for developers will reduce bugs. Second, software should more closely simulate the real world, so we should be expanding the pure object-oriented paradigm to allow for a richer set of basic abstractions -- like processes and conditions. The simple division of structures into hierarchies and collections in software too simple for our needs according to Livschitz. She offers a set of ideas explaining how to get 'there' from here. Comments?"

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  1. Well... by bobbinFrapples · · Score: 5, Funny

    First, making software more 'intuitive' for developers will reduce bugs

    Feels right.

  2. Not my problem anymore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This type of stuff is not a problem for me to worry about anymore. It's India's. Direct me to the nearest auto-mechanic school please. It's time to learn how to fix problems that can put money in my pocket.

  3. The real world is intuitive? by richmaine · · Score: 5, Funny

    So she wants to make software more intuitive and wants to make it more like the real world.

    Perhaps she should make up her mind. :-)

  4. Speaking of mistakes... by pokeyburro · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it also seemed like she misstated Java's approach as a "sandbag architecture" as opposed to a "sandbox architecture". I keep trying to visualize programmers writing more and more Java code to stave off the inevitable surge of bugs....

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  5. ...and the wheel turns by GSVNoFixedAbode · · Score: 5, Funny

    "and more closely simulate and resemble the real world". Hey, I know! How about a COmmon Business-Oriented Language? We could call it COBOL perhaps.

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  6. Re:I'd rather have... by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't forget

    • Slightly more experienced CS students acting condescending and superior to the newbies, because their own newbie days are 18 months behind them.
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