WRITING software is a painstaking business in which you can’t afford to slip
up: get a single character wrong and the instructions either do nothing or go
horribly wrong. In one infamous software error, a misplaced minus sign resulted
in a fighter jet’s control system flipping the aircraft on its back whenever it
crossed the equator.
Now a new system that takes the drudgery—and some of the potential for
slip-ups—out of programming is about to be launched. Its inventor hopes it
will one day turn us all into programmers.
Bob Brennan, a software engineer at Cambridge-based start-up Synapse…
