[citation needed] More seriously, there are many classes of problems which range from extremely impractical to impossible to tackle without software. The quest

[citation needed] More seriously, there are many classes of problems which range from extremely impractical to impossible to tackle without software. The question is also, who is getting the headaches? If you pile up enough man-hours on the most awful software, it will eventually work satisfactorily. Customers don't give a damn about the underlying code, nor they should, they want a product that works.