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Actually software can be repeatedly created with 100% accuracy. Writing software is creating the design of a gun. Not the construction.

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• tomcam 10y ago
  Perhaps I misunderstand you, but writing software is not like creating the design of a gun. Creating an algorithm is like creating the design of a gun. You can implement an algorithm poorly, and you could build a gun from a blueprint poorly, for example, using a soft metal. I am not trying to be pedantic. I genuinely do not understand your point.
  • UK-AL 10y ago
    The specification of an algorithm is the code. Other ways of defining an algorithm is simply a useful but leaky abstraction. Once you understand that code is the (highly detailed)design, a lot of the reasons why software is so hard to do well makes a lot more sense. Compiling the code or running in a vm is the construction. It explains why estimates are hard, and why software is not something pump out like manufacturing line easily.
    • tomcam 10y ago
      Ok, I agree completely
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