On 11/1/2013 6:52 AM, Wyatt wrote:
"We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error.
Although it is tempting to do so, creating a culture of "blame the programmer" for the mistakes he's made also creates a culture of denial of problems.
If you want to create quality of software, a far better culture is one that recognizes that people are imperfect, and looks for collaborative ways to engineer the possibility of errors out of the system. That doesn't work if you're trying to pin the blame on somebody.
