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OTOH if software developers had to work like architects, you would need to have a degree and several years of experience making coffee for more senior engineers
by pfedor 17y ago
OTOH if software developers had to work like architects, you would need to have a degree and several years of experience making coffee for more senior engineers before you were even allowed near a text editor. After that, you could write your own programs, but to actually run them through a compiler you would still need someone who has passed the bar exam, and you'd have to give them a cut of whatever you make off your software.
- ibsulon 17y agoWell, that certainly would make for better software, albeit more expensive...
- Zak 17y agoI have to disagree. It would make for less buggy software, but I suspect not for software that people want. The best way we know how to make products people want is to get a basic version released and iterate rapidly.
- gaius 17y agoAs the architecture model fails to construct buildings people want? People's wants are easily defined once cash money is involved in most industries...
- swombat 17y agoApplying these hurdles to software would be senseless, because the cost of bad software is infinitely smaller than the cost of bad architecture. 99.999% of software is never in a position to kill someone if it fails catastrophically. 99.999% of buildings are.
- ibsulon 17y agoBecause it would drive up the cost of software, it would spur the requirements of better requirements definition at the outset. It would also kill most in-house development, for that matter.