This was written in 1995, just after the failure of the $3.7 billion attempt to modernize software at the FAA. That was the most expensive failed software effor

This was written in 1995, just after the failure of the $3.7 billion attempt to modernize software at the FAA. That was the most expensive failed software effort ever. The amount of bloat on that project was astonishing. It’s worth reading about that failure to get some historical context against which this author was writing: http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-worst-software-project-failure-ever http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-worst-software-proj...