{"id":4,"date":"2004-06-17T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T17:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bozblog.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2004-06-17T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T17:12:16","slug":"software-and-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/software-and-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Software and Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in a March issue of Science by Alfred Aho (Columbia University). He points out that &#8220;few people appreciate the importance of software&#8211;until it breaks!&#8221;. He estimates that hundreds of billions of lines of code are running systems in the world (corresponding to trillions of dollars invested). This also corresponds to an estimated 5 million to 50 billion defective lines of code&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While &#8220;it is unlikely that humans will ever write software with zero defects&#8221;, a major area of study is how to make more reliable software systems.<\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<p><a href =\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/303\/5662\/1331\">abstract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in a March issue of Science by Alfred Aho (Columbia University). He points out that &#8220;few people appreciate the importance of software&#8211;until it breaks!&#8221;. He estimates that hundreds of billions of lines of code are running systems in the world (corresponding to trillions of dollars invested). This also corresponds to an estimated 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}