> Remember that old engineering joke about good/cheap/on-time, you can pick only two? That's not a joke. That's the capsule summary of every programming projec

> Remember that old engineering joke about good/cheap/on-time, you can pick only two? That's not a joke. That's the capsule summary of every programming project I've ever been involved with, and where they went wrong (if they did). Hell, sometimes you don't even get two out of three.