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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

-Alan Perlis

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Is It Possible That Software Is Not

Alan Perlis

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

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I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily i've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. the minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. and no one calls you up the next day to say, 'so sorry you didn't win,' or 'you looked gorgeous - nothing. if you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

How many christians live for appearances? their life seems like a soap bubble. the soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! but it lasts only a second, and then what?

...one of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that software is hard. from now on i shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that i encounter. during the past decade i was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for tex and metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things i had done (like proving theorems or writing books). the creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

The software patent problem is not limited to mono. software patents affect everyone writing software today.

Because software is all about scale. the larger you are, the more profitable you are. if we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. so the more customers you have, the more scale you have. the larger you are, the more profitable you are.

When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. they're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. that's a very hard job.

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