A turning point for CVE numbers

> [1] Or rather, existed, having never grown beyond the "academic toy" status or long since confined to the dustbins of history.

And how much software, having started out as an "academic toy", is now mainstream despite being unfit for purpose precisely because it's all the CS grads know?

Pretty much all the software I swear BY, was designed and then built. Pretty much all the software I swear AT, was cobbled together and the cracks papered over. Unfortunately, properly designed software is a rarity :-( It's also usually older software which imho is still better in many cases than its modern replacements, which just aren't "fit for purpose".

Even if it's only in the programmer's head, a truth table of all possible options leads to a far better program than a programmer responding "oh I didn't think of that" when faced with an end user pointing out the beedin' obvious! (And no, I don't expect the first programmer to *implement* all possible options, just the fact that they were considered in the design results in a far better design.)

Cheers,
Wol