Programming metaphors (Was: Programming as literature.)

[Mark McEahern]

[Jarno J Virtanen]
[...]
> When I think of the final products of software development and building
> construction I find it hard to compare them.  Yeah, sure there is some
> sort of an "architecture" that they're based on and they're both
> non-trivial combinations of some sort of building blocks.  But it's just
> that the software product seems so fragile.  [...]

Fragile is a good word.  I'd also say flexible.  In other words, soft.

// mark