Wired News has an interesting article about some of the worst software bugs. One interesting note is that in the last bug example (the National Cancer Institute, on page 2), when the bug resulted in deaths, it was the software users (doctors) that were blamed, not the programmer(s) that created the bug. Interesting.

As for me, the worst bugs I’ve experienced (or should I say “created”) as a programmer have resulted in data deletion. However, in those cases I had a backup, thankfully.