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If what you say is true, we'd have electronic voting. Why don't we have that? Physical engineers face unknowns all the time. Building in unknown environments
by fnid2 17y ago
If what you say is true, we'd have electronic voting. Why don't we have that?
Physical engineers face unknowns all the time. Building in unknown environments for example. New materials. Climate change. I can't even count the number of different designs for bridges, buildings, and cranes.
- krakensden 17y agoWe DO have that- don't mistake America for the world.
- sshumaker 17y agoYes, but at least you know you're building a bridge. Instead of, say, developing a game and discovering your users want a photo sharing site instead (flickr). That's an extreme example, but it's very rare to build software that doesn't deviate significantly from what is initially specified. You could never engineer in those conditions. And once you build your bridge, you're finished. It just has to stand there and take the load. It doesn't have to be unpredictably changed over the course of it's lifetime to also function as an airstrip and shopping mall. Even the simplest of real-world software products you typically need to grow and adapt - sometimes dramatically - over time.