Software is hard. I blame it in Moore's law, in the sense that computers have gotten more capable but we programmers have not. Its like the brain can only hold

Software is hard. I blame it in Moore's law, in the sense that computers have gotten more capable but we programmers have not. Its like the brain can only hold so much before it gets overrun, and we reached that point several years ago. Working with large programs is very difficult, even for the best architected ones. And of course we can't expect all software to be the best software. The result of these big programs is people blindly using modules created by others, built on top of ever more modules. In theory this is good though. It is specialization. But we haven't done a good job of it. I think if we want to make software easier to write (and as a result better) the place to start is on the process of programming with more specialized pieces, be it a better module system or domain specific features in the programming language. I think it comes down to managing the complexity some a person can better view the big picture.