> Software engineering is not yet plumbing — or Legos — because our standards are incomplete, our libraries incompatible, scaling is still not free and our soft

> Software engineering is not yet plumbing — or Legos — because our standards are incomplete, our libraries incompatible, scaling is still not free and our software still buggy. I think it's more that plumbing has been with us for thousands of years. Imagine if we had computers 5000 years ago - software surely would have been plug-and-play by now as Sam writes about.