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I read this totally awesome blog entry that I had to add to my list of clips. The blog entry talks about the different metaphors used to describe software engineering, and I just could not help but laugh, cry and agree with the following quote
"I think we're leaving one metaphor on the table which more accurately reflects the way software is built in the real world: flail around randomly and pray you succeed by force of pure dumb luck. Sometimes it even works. Not very often, but just enough to confuse people who should know better into thinking they're smart, when what they really were is lucky."
From Coding Horror, see Tending Your Software Garden.
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I think we all built software this way at some point or another.
Posted by Octavian on December 01, 2008 at 04:54 PM PST #