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Half a century later, people are still overly optimistic about software development. According to recent studies, this is true for everything (and society at la
by jhrobert 14y ago
Half a century later, people are still overly optimistic about software development. According to recent studies, this is true for everything (and society at large is actually in favor of it).
Yet it is particulary visible in computing. Why is that?
Side note: bullshit in marketing brochure is here to stay.
- maclaren 14y agoHalf a century later the change isn't from assembly to an actually useful level of abstraction. The bullshit-o-meter is damped further when half the document shows code examples that would be much more difficult in assembly.
- koeselitz 14y agoWhat's overly optimistic about saying that interpreted languages will virtually eliminate the need to hand-debug machine code? Isn't that what happened?