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by James Farmer on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 08:15:23 AM PDT

I'm not sure if software is getting buggier so much as the environment in which software operates is getting more and more complex. You no longer just have to worry about your own software; you also have to worry about lots of operating system variants, hardware, memory-resident utilities, libraries, environment paths, memory architectures, RAID arrays, etc etc etc. And especially with stuff like copy-protection which is designed to operate "on the edge", so to speak, the infinite variety of supposedly-compatible computers means there just so much room for things to go WRONG. The O.S. is supposed to hide this complexity from the programmer, but in my experience it doesn't do so perfectly.



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