SANS' just-released list of the Top 15 most dangerous programming errors obscures the real problem with software development today, argues InfoWeek's Alex Wolfe.

In More Than Coding Mistakes At Fault In Bad Software, he lays the blame on PC developers (Microsoft) who kicked the time-honored waterfall model to the curb and replaced it not with object-oriented or agile development but with a 'modus operandi of cramming in as many features as possible, and then fixing problems in beta.'

He argues that youthful programmers don't know about error-catching and lack a sense of history, suggesting they read Fred Brooks 'The Mythical Man-Month,' and Gerald Weinberg's 'The Psychology of Computer Programming.'

http://www.sans.org/top25errors//

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