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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 474823" data-attributes="member: 649">OT Software Maturity ContinuedWe may have to agree to disagree. Software development has matured enormously in the time I've been programming (the last 25 years), and it continues to mature. When I first started programming there were no APIs so everything you wrote was from scratch. As a result there were huge opportunities for bugs at every level. Today when you program you can easily create windows, controls, etc. and have them work intelligently with almost no effort, and none of those contain bugs (to speak of). Your data is automatically indexed, and your garbage is beginning to be automatically cleaned up for you. With the advent of object-oriented programming came the beginnings of being able to mimic business logic (the real world) in code without the opportunity to introduce nearly as many bugs as if you had to write all of your object orientation from scratch. Along with improved tools have come improved design techniques, better ways to express requirements and match application logic to them, and dramatically improved methods of working in teams on code, maintaining versions, etc.It's not stone knives and bearskins anymore, and this improved maturity allows programs to much more easily be much less bug prone, dramatically reducing the amount of QA required to produce a given function, and fantastically reducing maintenance costs and effort.The software development field has matured dramatically in the last 25 years, and it gets better all the time. Structural engineering is a mature engineering field. Certainly things change, but a new way to build the structure of a bridge doesn't appear every 18 months the way entirely new paradigms still appear in software.I think we must simply disagree.</blockquote>

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