> Another way of looking at it -- scalability is pretty much the entire value proposition of software That sounds like a good way to look. People are Turing-co

> Another way of looking at it -- scalability is pretty much the entire value proposition of software That sounds like a good way to look. People are Turing-complete, although that doesn't mean that they are very good at scale without instructions, and "programming" clusters of people has its own set of quirks. :) > It allows people to do the same, or more, amount of work without having to linearly scale out the number of people working on something. But this is not the entire story, but only the throughput part of it. And there are entire classes of software where at least part of the value lies in latency. That's, for example, most of Internet as we know it, from the hypertext browsing to videoconferencing, and most software we would call "embedded", from watches to spaceships.