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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> I think that during the last decades we have made it possible to
> produce crappy software. It's too cheap to fix to bother to make it
> right. This is the comfort that other domains do not have and this is
> what makes the difference in how engineering in different domains is
> practiced.

Which is not the case if you're developing automotve control software,
for example; it's not cheap to fix when you have hundreds of thousands
of examples out in the field.

I suppose we know how to estimate the costs to design the hardware
properly. Not sure that we even know how to design the software
properly, let alone how much it'll cost.