05 Dec 2006
Bjarne Stroustrup on the Problems With Programming

Lot's of insights here - engineering of all sorts is more art than science, and will be as long as humans are both engineers and users of the products.

MIT's Technology Review has a Q&A with C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup. Highlights include Bjarne's answers on the trade-offs involved in the design of C++, and how they apply today, and his thoughts on the solution to the problems. From the interview: "Software developers have become adept at the difficult art of building reasonably reliable systems out of unreliable parts. The snag is that often we do not know exactly how we did it."

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