Running with that idea, would Collins submarine project need an engine that could be fed programs and the engine could trace back to individuals who actually contributed to / detracted from the project ?
For example you’d feed the engine a copy of your software and the engine might say “Madycki – did good work in 1986″ and people might look at the printout of this and say “Madycki – better try to get him for our next project, he’s good value”.
Having the device or someone who created the device to evaluate the work done is fraught with danger. I consider myself an honest person but even I would be tempted to exaggerate the contributions I make to projects.
That would be nice, if the ability to do it really existed.
You do not need tools to reverse engineer a specification. The Collins guys were geniuses and should be thought of as heroes..