What if civil engineers build bridges the way developers write codes?

Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson has hit out at an industry in which "most software people are not trained to think in terms of safety, security and reliability." Instead, they are wedded to a culture of "patch, patch, patch," at a cost to businesses of $59 billion, she said.

"What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?" she asked. "What would happen is that you would get the blue bridge of death appearing on your highway in the morning."

She was speaking in the WWW2006 Conference in Edinburg, Scotland. She also thought that software developers will never build a plane.

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