Chapter 7. Empowering the Internet-Enabled Information Infrastructure
The galling thing about the generally poor quality of much current software is that there is no extrinsic reason for it; perfection is, in principle, possible.… It is only our own human frailties that limit the quality of software. We humans are not particularly adept at dealing with extremely complex situations. On the surface it may appear that large programs are rather like small ones—only bigger. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. The complexity of programs grows at least as the square of their size. It doesn't take a very large program to be beyond our human limitations. | ||
| --William A. Wulf Comments on “Current Practice”Research Directions in Software Technology ... | ||
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