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> it doesn't matter whose failure it is.

It does. The distinction between a misunderstanding of aviation, or a misunderstanding of which of many possible models is in place.

I'm interested in misunderstandings of aviation. How did aviators think about it before software ever entered the picture? Which of their concepts are coherent, and why do they use them? What reasoning power do those concepts get them? It's interesting when programmers misunderstand that.

It's less interesting when programmers setup a poor system for keeping track of things. It could be busses or trains or parts in a factory. It's not aviation specific, and it's run-of-the-mill bad design when it's done badly. Apparently the first software engineers to model aviation were really bad at it.



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