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Comments are the usual, complete nonsense combined with religious arguments for and against.

" It is only a matter of time before someone, or many someones die due to an error in software code. When this happens either to a person of status or to a large enough group of people to cause the press, then lawyers, and then politicians to notice, legislative hell will be unleashed."

Wrong. People have died due to software bugs and will continue to do so.
That's no different from people dieing due to mechanical failure caused by a design defect.
The responsible parties take the blame, and depending on where it happens get sued to death or actually get a chance to correct the mistake, preventing others from getting killed.
At least with software problems the flaw can usually be corrected without replacing the entire machine that caused the problem...

It would be great if we could flag your complaint as ridiculously lame.

I agree

An interesting interview with Bjarne that makes me wonder why we expect programmers to be both great programmers AND understand the details of the business? No wonder even good programmers have trouble coding business logic into systems. Technology to bring the business users into the process of creating and, crucially, of maintaining the logic in these systems is needed not complaints about programmers.

Part 2 is here: http://www.dzone.com/links/technology_review_more_trouble_with_programming.html