Software simplicity, and hence safety - thwarted for decades
Edward S. Lowry · 2004
Leading providers of software could best improve their productivity and the safety of their products by large scale simplification. However, incentives to complicate other people's lives have been strong and leaders have avoided noticing opportunities for serious simplification for decades. In failing to pursue simplification (or knowledge of basic structures), the software community has shown an aversion toward fundamental issues and the public safety that seems unprecedented in other technologies. Half the workforce works to arrange pieces of information having almost no idea what is a reasonable structure for pieces of information. In effect, the software community has been keeping human minds debilitated on an increasingly large scale to maintain them in a state of dependency. Anyone responsible for software safety should be regarded as a menace until their competence in software simplicity is demonstrated, especially the leading organizations and individuals.