We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not To

https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/sapm/2014/03/14/we-could-write-nearly-perfect-software-but-we-choose-not-to/

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webmobdev• 5 years ago

Code Review Performed by a Separate Team

It's a very good suggestion that intuitively feels right but I shudder at the extra work load and the distraction that this can be.

AnimalMuppet• 5 years ago

Yeah. We could write much less nearly perfect software, but we choose to write much more somewhat flawed software.

oversocialized• 5 years ago

Humans doing anything perfect consistently is against our nature

cafard• 5 years ago

How about "We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software, but We Don't Have NASA's Budget or Well-Scoped Projects"?

chadcmulligan• 5 years ago

Well-Scoped Projects

This is a big part imho, in many ways engineering type stuff is easier because you know exactly (pretty well) what you have to do, in business systems, its a lot fluffier.

We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not To

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