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Some designer wrote (Russian, of course, we're all into this stuff) something along the lines of "If you feel an area is great — you're just not familiar with i
by thoughtspile 8y ago
Some designer wrote (Russian, of course, we're all into this stuff) something along the lines of "If you feel an area is great — you're just not familiar with it". Tried not to get carried out there, I'm already sad enough)
I guess (hope) avionic / nuclear software is generally of higher quality, but must it really be so hard and expensive to develop well?
- freeone3000 8y agoYes! That's the issue. Good, robust development takes time. You can estimate the number of flaws in a product by the amount of time it takes to find one - if this is measured in minutes, your product likely has thousands of errors. Actual, robust software takes thousands of hours of TESTING, nevermind development. Multiple vendor cycles. Field studies. User observation to limit system error. And unfortunately (if you're not a programmer) programmers are very, very expensive, but most software must be very cheap. So unless you're at the largest scale, your software is likely crap or very expensive, because the market won't support anything else.