> Perhaps the biggest shift in software engineering in the last decade or two is the fact that no one writes entire systems anymore. That's unfortunate. If we

> Perhaps the biggest shift in software engineering in the last decade or two is the fact that no one writes entire systems anymore. That's unfortunate. If we kept at it, we could have discovered much simpler ways of doing things than the current accumulation of leaky abstractions over leaky abstractions in a rather disintegrated environment. We can do better: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf