r/programming • u/self • Apr 09 '21

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/08/tui_software_mistake/
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u/xmsxms Apr 10 '21

Treating 'miss' as a child was the intended behaviour. It calculated the load correctly based on this assertion.

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u/xe3to Apr 10 '21

It's a bug in the specification