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What is software?

03. Feb, 2009

Software is really a very different type of “product” – the only I know that is released not completely finished neither fail-proof.

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Written By Tim Groeneveld.

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  1. texnofobix
    03. Feb, 2009 at 11:40 pm #

    No product is ‘failproof’ usually. Or they wouldn’t have warranties. ;)

  2. tinkertim
    09. Feb, 2009 at 2:14 pm #

    Software is as much art as it is anything else. Think about it for a minute, if most programmers decided to abandon software and just make sculptures and paintings … we’d all be in jail.

    Why? We’d be arrested for breaking into people’s homes to finish our work long after it was purchased.

    So, really, every release is a functional work of art in progress.