That's because each of the several hundred billions of pounds of greenfield government software programmes is a slapdash crud forms exercise bugger the millions

That's because each of the several hundred billions of pounds of greenfield government software programmes is a slapdash crud forms exercise bugger the millions of man years of development by the original experts despite there's little to change in the vast majority of diagnostic pathways. In fact the Reed Codes which resulted from a immense pan European study of two decades length and became canon in ca 1988 remain canonical the only programming work involved in new processes being parsing these together with inserting a myriad of OR impedence where new forms of graft are inserted. We've just switched off national critical systems of civic function across the board over the past few years. Probate about the most egregious example the replacement system containing a mere handful out of the estimated twenty thousand expert legal assessment rules at inception. Manual operations the only alternative for at least two years that I was paying attention.