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Weinberg's Law: If Builders Built Buildings the Way Programmers Wrote Programs, Then the First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization.


Why are So Many of the Words in This Comment Capitalised? Is it a Title of Something?


That's the soft in software.


This sounds very clever but the nature of software development is quite different from building buildings. The rate of innovation is by magnitudes higher. And as opposed to buildings software can tolerate a certain amount of failure.


"Pfft. Chickens don't even know what a road is!"




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