Posted: Sep 28, 2011 11:45 am
by tnjrp
laklak wrote:How many people here have every actually designed and written a complex software system? I don't mean some web app or DB mining system, I mean a real, live, multiple-linked-mainframe, thousand-man-year system?
On their own, single-handedly? Try 0. But the obvious hyberbole aside, maybe one or two could have managed such a feat without help. Am rather doubtfull tho.

Generally, having participated in a number of large software projects and even having some actual scientific training in computer science I agree of course. You can't simulate anything very complex on a computer yet so that it actually conforms to the reality.

Why are we even talking about this again?