The engineering metaphor has had its time in the sun, and maybe it even used to be accurate, but now it really only serves to help non-technical people have unrealistic expectations about how software gets built.

Via You are NOT a Software Engineer! - chrisaitchison.com, hat tip to Theo Schlossnagle (who once said to me that web development is "the easy part" ;-)..

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