On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 19:46, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > Back to the original topic, I think that the pessimistic guys are not > considering a point: twenty years ago the average software project was > *much* simpler than today. I mean, there were not Internet, the > related massive scalability issues, the related security technologies > and ABOVE ALL the life cycle was more regular, that is you there were > more chances that the original specs were the final ones, while today > is almost impossible (in other words, today specs on evolution and > flexibility are much more complex).
Indeed - and even more potential points of failure and bugs. > So even though we put the same effort on the average project than > twenty years ago, it's a proof that technology has really improved > since the average complexity today is MUCH higher. Oh yes, I guess, you are right. Thanks for pointing that out. Compared to my early days of programming tools and languages improved a very lot I would say. Looking at the last 5 years or so then I am less sure. Although re-inventing the wheel is sometimes necessary, it nowadays means the need of re-implementing a lot of stuff that already existed before. So I guess for new languages it will become more and more difficult to get to the level we have been before. -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
