Was in a meeting earlier with a recent software engineering grad who hadn't heard about the Therac-25. I recently saw another toot about this and how I guess it's not a common case study or reference anymore?
Seriously, if you write software, you should be aware of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
The Ariane 5 explosion is also a good case study on exception handling and code reuse.
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