{"id":871,"date":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/809\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:00:00","slug":"809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/12\/05\/809\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Pontin interviews Bjarne Stroustrup at Technology Review &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techreview.com\/InfoTech\/17831\/\" title=\"Technology Review: The Problem with Programming\">The Problem with Programming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;In theory, the answer is simple: educate our software developers better, use more-appropriate design methods, and design for flexibility and for the long haul. Reward correct, solid, and safe systems. Punish sloppiness.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, that&#8217;s impossible. People reward developers who deliver software that is cheap, buggy, and first. That&#8217;s because people want fancy new gadgets now. They <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want inconvenience, don&#8217;t want to learn new ways of interacting with their computers, don&#8217;t want delays in delivery, and don&#8217;t want to pay extra for quality (unless it&#8217;s obvious up front&#8211;and often not even then). And without real changes in user behavior, software suppliers are unlikely to change.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t just stop the world for a decade while we reprogram everything from our coffee machines to our financial systems. On the other hand, just muddling along is expensive, dangerous, and depressing.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Pontin interviews Bjarne Stroustrup at Technology Review &#8211; The Problem with Programming: &#8222;In theory, the answer is simple: educate our software developers better, use more-appropriate design methods, and design for flexibility and for the long haul. Reward correct, solid, and safe systems. Punish sloppiness. In reality, that&#8217;s impossible. People reward developers who deliver software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}