Software: Slow, hard to use, bug-ridden and fatal
These "Futurist Programming Notes" remind us how little we expect from software, suggesting the slogan, "Sure today's software is a little slow, but the thing you gotta remember it's hard to use and completely bug ridden."
The authors, Paul Haeberli and Bruce Karsh, ask the pertinent question, "In the last 20 years machines have increased in performance by a factor of 200. Why hasn't software performance improved by a factor of 2?"
This is timely due to today's news of a climber and software engineer dying on Mt. Everest while, in his words, "Giving the IM-PAC software the ultimate field test..." In tribute to the late Robert Milne, few software engineers I know would be willing to put so much trust in software.
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