The Relationship between software aesthetics and quality
“Most software design is lousy. Most software is so bad, in fact, that if it were a bridge, no one in his or her right mind would walk across it.”
That’s the way my inspirational reading for today starts. It’s a quite old publication by Chuck Connell, I thought it would be interesting to share it here.
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There was once a class filled primarily with long experienced professional programmers who went back to school in order to obtain a degree. The professor in that class asked:
If you were in an airplane and few minutes before its take off, you were informed that this plane will be using a navigation system programmed by YOUR team of engineers, how many of you would ask to leave the plane?
All of the students raised their hand (that they would leave), except for one. The professor approached that student.
“So, you feel so confident about your engineers?”
“Sir,” he responded, “if my team of engineers programmed the navigation system, I would have nothing to worry about. That plane would never even manage to taxi to the runway, much less take off and put my life in danger!”