I had a really hard time getting past this in the article: > Not so, as the average programmer is trained not as an operator of simple input-output machines bu

I had a really hard time getting past this in the article: > Not so, as the average programmer is trained not as an operator of simple input-output machines but as a Computer Scientist. And Computer Scientists are very clever. They’ve spent a lot of time and effort in figuring out how to successfully design complex applications. > They also have to justify the forty hours a week they sit at their desks. It simply wouldn’t be feasible for a team of four programmers to finish a six-month project in two weeks. The entire management schedule would be thrown off. > So, we have people specializing in complex systems with a vested interest in taking a large amount of time to create something. They’re faced with a simple problem. Clearly, the goal is to fit the problem into the system and time available, which necessitates taking the simple problem and making it more complex I almost don't even know what to say in response to this. It is such an incorrect, uncharitable, foolish view of the situation that I can't take anything else in this essay seriously. Not to say that these tendencies don't exist, but to take that as your assumption for the whole industry? If it's so simple, start a company, do it right, and put the rest of us out of business.