Duuude…

“As economics is known as ‘the miserable science’, software engineering should be known as ‘the doomed discipline’, doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. Software engineering presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter ‘How to program if you cannot’.”

– Edsger Dijkstra

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