It's now nearly 30 years since this article titled Software's Chronic Crisis by W Wayt Gibbs appeared in the September 1994 issue of Scientific American: https:

It's now nearly 30 years since this article titled Software's Chronic Crisis by W Wayt Gibbs appeared in the September 1994 issue of Scientific American: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247573088_Software's_Chronic_Crisis https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247573088_Software'.... What's truly shocking is that the chronic problems with software that were identified in the 1994 SciAm article are still essentially same as those outlined in this current IEEE article. Back then, Wayt Gibbs correctly concluded that software development couldn't be classed as a professional engineering discipline, so why, if anything, has software development sunk even further into the mire over the past 30 years? It is truly incredible that so many have allowed this unmitigated shambles to perpetuate for so long. Why the fuck can't the software industry and computer science finally get their act together?