See also http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/tending-your-software-garden.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/tending-your-softwa... The last li

See also http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/tending-your-software-garden.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/11/tending-your-softwa... The last line is a little presumptive for my taste. How do you know I didn't write the firmware for your pacemaker? There's gardened software and there's engineered software and both have their place.