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"... Actually software is so much easier than any other kind of physical engineering ..."

Not so. While the construction of things is hard. It is backed up with hundreds of years of engineering experience, thousands in hacking. This has allowed engineers to design with both the confidence of theory and some understanding of tolerance,

Despite being just over 50 years old, Software is not yet an engineering discipline. There is no tolerance for error ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparing_software_engineering_...



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