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Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released by coldtea on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:02PM (#17425251)
>Software development should strive to be a proper, rational, engineering discipline.

That will never happen. Or when it did it will be all mechanized, with machines doing the programming.

Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released by MaxBarraclough on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:49PM (#17425705)
Even today, a tiny proportion of software development is actually done with a respectable engineering process.

It's not a myth, and I don't see that it should be dismissed as a pipe-dream to think that this sort of serious engineering approach could be adopted outside the critical-systems industry.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff