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Cowboy Engineers in the Software Industry

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the was-it-much-harder-in-my-day? dept.

shabadoo writes:

"Will software engineering always be a cowboy's game? Or is it just a case of when you're a passionate expert the pimples stand out more clearly. This guy has clearly had enough. His vents are amusing, but also raise some good points about the state of the industry."

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by mth on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:39PM

    by mth (2848) on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:39PM (#9859) Homepage

    The third problem is that most software written is, in some key aspects, completely new and different. So you can't just do it the standard way.

    I agree. If you need the same functionality again and again, you put it in a library, framework or code generator. So the parts that you actually end up writing are the parts that are different from other projects. I think this is one of the reasons why software projects are difficult to plan: you're going to be spending most of the time on things you haven't done before.

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