Was putting in seatbelts a bad move because it made cars
more expensive to produce?
Bad analogy. Seat belts are a marginal expense on a car (I
have a hard time believing that they would even add $500
(3%) to the cost of a $15,000 car). The reason that so much
current software is so shoddy is because doing it Right
would increase the cost of development substantially. Add
insurance, bonding, auditing, and other methods of
protecting against the possibility (certainty) that a
bug slipped past QA on top of that, and you're looking at
software production costs increasing by an order of
magnitude or so. And that's probably optimistic.
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