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Same reason you can write a proof of concept in a weekend, but the production version can take years. The web's best example is twitter. Anyone can write a twi
by knorker 3y ago
Same reason you can write a proof of concept in a weekend, but the production version can take years.
The web's best example is twitter. Anyone can write a twitter clone in a weekend. A reasonably competent programmer can create a multiuser twitter clone in under an hour.
But you can't write twitter in an hour.
It's amazing how much you can write when your requirements are much smaller.
Also if you write your Unix for exactly one hardware, then you don't need two serial port drivers. And therefore you don't even need a serial port driver abstraction API.
- pixl97 3y agoWriting the POC takes 90% of the time, writing the code to deal with the edge cases takes the other 90% of the time! Or another one I like to say. It takes a few lines of code to deal with the right answer. A few lines code to deal with the wrong answer. And an absolutely massive amount of code to deal with Russell's Paradox.