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Why software is hard.

May 4, 2006

Software is hard to build because there are so many approaches that will lead to less undesirable results down the road, and so very few that lead to success.

It's like a 3,000 page choose-your-own-adventure book that only has one positive outcome in the hundreds of possible endings.

Posted by rmeyer at 10:51 PM

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