> Utterly unthinkable, isn't it? > Yet in software engineering, this is exactly what has been happening every day for more than a decade. Consider what happen

> Utterly unthinkable, isn't it? > Yet in software engineering, this is exactly what has been happening every day for more than a decade. Consider what happened to poor Semmelweis when he discovered in the middle of the 19th century that hand-washing improved medical outcomes: doctors of the time were too proud to accept his results and drove him out of the profession (and to his early grave) rather than change their practices. All these people who insist on continuing to write new C programs have the same mentality as those doctors who refused to wash their hands.