Mature industries like plumbing are less complex than ours, not because software is intrinsically more complicated, but because they—and not we —have solved their complexity, nonconformity, and changeability problems by using a producer/consumer hierarchy to distribute these problems across time and organizational space. The plumbing supply market lets plumbers solve only the complexities of a single level of the producer/consumer hierarchy without having to think about lower levels, for example, by reinventing pipes, faucets, thermostats, and water pumps from first principles. - Brad Cox, inventor of the Objective-C programming language
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 05:02:29 +0000
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