chrisn-585491 (9/25/2013)
I'm skeptical of anyone with a long, significant career in software that claims "no bugs or errors." Especially if they tout C++.So either we have encountered the "World's Best Programmer, Ever" or we are being trolled. Now days we don't believe anyone's claims in this field unless they demonstrate it. (Considering an estimated 80-90 percent of job candidates misrepresent themselves. ) There's one sure way to find out:
Please post some of this amazing code on GitHub or publically accessible site of that ilk.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your skepticism and questioning this.
But there are systems that once the bugs are worked out, they can have a very long life given that the business practices do not change. There are operational errors caused by incomplete or erroneous data, but since the processes do not change the system can run for decades. And it is not that there were no errors, but that those errors were worked out years ago. And then without need for change the system keeps living.
Like Steve and Simon I have developed systems that ran for decades without revision and without error other then data or other operational errors. That does not mean that I am an ace programmer, only that every once in a while we got it right, and it stayed right.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!