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Experts shed light on how model-driven engineering can help programmers solve problems and reduce software errors more effectively than traditional programming

There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. Tweets: @timbray , @zelbinian , @jsomers , @tyronecoupland , and @adriennelaf Tweets: Tim Bray / @timbray : Hm, thinking I need five thousand words or so to express my thoughts on this. Reading non-coders' words about coding is... weird. http://twitter.com/... Dustin / @zelbinian : “Visual Studio [has] 55 million lines of code. And ... [the study found] >98% of it is completely irrelevant.” #ux https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... James Somers / @jsomers : Started working on this story about why software fails, and how to fix it, two years ago—and now it's finally here! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Tyrone Coupland / @tyronecoupland : “Software doesn't break...Software failures are failures of understanding, and of imagination.” @jsomers Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf : “The people know *how* to code. The problem is *what* to code.” Phenomenal piece by the great @jsomers. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

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