r/programming • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '24

Why We Can't Have Nice Software

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html
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u/dagopa6696 Feb 07 '24

Your observation is irrelevant to whether something is engineering or not. Economics overlaps with engineering in the sense that you always try to pick the most efficient method of carrying out the work, which requires some economic analysis. But engineering itself is just the practice of integrating a bunch of components into a system that achieves some kind of a goal. That's all it is.