On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On Jun 26, 2015, at 3:08 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
At least car manufacturers are held to standards, and not anybody can just
fashion their own chassis in their backyard. But that's what's being done in
software every day.
actually they can. If they try to sell them they have to go through crash
tests, etc. but you can build a vehicle from racks of steel, and as long as
the result meets the requirements (which are much less detailed than you
would think) you can register the result to run on the road.
Well, sure, but what I meant to say was that it's not the general and standard
practice. Entry into the vehicle market is at least limited by access to
manufacturing equipment of some kind. Getting into software requires a <$400
Dell laptop and a book titled "SAMS: Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours" or
somesuch. The resulting output is inevitably more varied & harder to manage.
but even the most mundane auto-shop will install customizations to your car,
while many Corp IT shops never write a line of code, they just run commercial
software.
no analogy is perfect. our field is young and ifyou go back and look at what
cars were like around the turn of the last century, you'll see that things
weren't much better there.
David Lang
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