>This article was clearly written by a non-sailor as his terminology is very odd. This is a parable about modern software development. The author is a compsci

>This article was clearly written by a non-sailor as his terminology is very odd. This is a parable about modern software development. The author is a compsci professor. From the biography section at the bottom: Richard E. (Dick) Fairley is a professor of computer science and director of the software engineering program at the Oregon Graduate Institute. Thanks for the cool facts about ships, though.