> We know that Gates is aware of this, because he is credited with having once said: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." We can only hope that he is keeping this in mind; he certainly makes no reference to the problem in this piece.
From my experience, it seems the solution the software industry used was very much like putting rocket engines on planes made of lead.
From my experience, it seems the solution the software industry used was very much like putting rocket engines on planes made of lead.