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It's amazing to me that people compare a job that we have 7,000 years of experience with (making buildings) to a job that we have 70 years of experience with (m
by kod 10y ago
It's amazing to me that people compare a job that we have 7,000 years of experience with (making buildings) to a job that we have 70 years of experience with (making software).
- dasil003 10y agoAlso the construction of physical objects obeys unchanging physical laws. The construction of software is the coalescence of arbitrary logic. Real engineers decry the lack of discipline in software engineering, but I don't think it's possible to impose anything approaching the discipline of physical engineering without radically more constraints, but to do that would require subdividing software into a large number of much more focused domains, and even then, the divisions would be somewhat arbitrary.