A few tidbits from the article which caught my eye:


  • ‘I think the real problem is that “we” (that is, we software developers) are in a permanent state of emergency, grasping at straws to get our work done.’

  • ‘People reward developers who deliver software that is cheap, buggy, and first. That’s because people want fancy new gadgets now. They don’t want inconvenience, don’t want to learn new ways of interacting with their computers, don’t want delays in delivery, and don’t want to pay extra for quality’

Reference: More Trouble with Programming
The second part of our interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++.