Re: Is Control Theory still on the syllabus for ICT qualifications?
This sort of issue is notoriously problematic to avoid even by professionals - I wouldn't call the nice chaps devising the TFTP protocol amateurs, yet they managed to bake exactly such a problem (see " Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome") right into the specification - it only got corrected years later (unfortunately, the correction pretty much breaks TFTP with u-boot to this day if packet loss exists).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
