"Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle"
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Nice analogy *
I guess the current wave is going to give us Sofware Development Epicycles (SDEC?)
* All analogies are "wrong", some analogies are useful
it will be the users sculpting formal systems like playdoh.
People are pushing back against this phrase, but on some level it seems perfect, it should be visualized and promoted!
The trees are canonical though.
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I’ll never see a tree at all.
Song of the Open Road - Ogden NashThe conventional wisdom is ~70% of serious security bugs are memory safety issues.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/CSAC_TAC_Re...
I suppose because they resemble the abstractions that make complex language possible
As in models: All analogies are "wrong", some analogies are useful.
If you consider engineering the art of the possible. (Yes, I know it's a politician's phrase, that's because politics is the art of the plausible ... )
Not a guy ;)