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A comment on Ask HN: What is the Holy Grail for Software Engineering?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the Holy Grail for Software Engineering? by daniel-cussen on Friday December 03, 2010 @08:27PM (#1968097)
There's really three problems I can think of, in decreasing order of difficulty:

1) writing an AI,

2) proving P=/=NP, and

3) founding a 200-billion dollar company.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the Holy Grail for Software Engineering? by steveklabnik on Friday December 03, 2010 @08:37PM (#1968119)
These are computer science, not software engineering.

Oh, and #3 is neither...

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