Exactly what I was trying to say, but in a much better way. Programming as such is more like an art than an engineering discipline. Writing a complex applicati

Exactly what I was trying to say, but in a much better way. Programming as such is more like an art than an engineering discipline. Writing a complex application is more like writing a novel. Try adding authors to a late or failing novel and see what happens. Besides, I thought that the whole programmers as resources thing was debunked in the mythical man month book. I blame all of this on the "software engineering" movement. The discipline, if used properly, is fine. But calling people resources seem to me like skipping over the important points of the discipline and focusing on the wrong things.