OT: Crazy Programming

[Aahz]

In article <3CE1C502.BF27501D at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Greg Ewing  <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>If buildings were built like computer programs, every building would be
>unique, not quite like any other building ever built before, and using
>experimental new materials and building techniques. And before we'd got
>all the bugs out of one building, we'd be charging ahead with the next
>one. Under those conditions, I don't think the building industry would
>have much of a reputation for reliability in their products!

To be fair, one can now purchase complete plumbing systems that are
known to work.  Or are you claiming that there has been no advance in
the state of the art between machine language and Python?
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