No silver bullet? Check this out: http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm They already have some results: http://www.vpri.org/p

No silver bullet? Check this out: http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm http://vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm They already have some results: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf To sum it up, they do "personal computing" in about 4 orders of magnitude less code than current mainstream systems (from more than 200 millions lines to about 20,000). That includes the self-implementing compilers. The only thing they left out was the device drivers (which by the way takes less than 0.5% the size of current systems). Now the Complexity Werewolf just went from "Unspeakably Awful Indescribable Horror" to "Cute puppy".