Humble Toolsmith
The Importance of Humility in Software Development
All too frequently, we hear news of another major software bug. Bugs from big companies make the biggest news. Bugs from little companies seem just as common. As programmers, all these bugs are costing us time and money. We know we need to improve. But we can’t seem to figure out how.
As an industry, we’ve tried solving this problem with increasingly complex processes, increasingly complex tools, and sophisticated techniques. But Edsger Dijkstra proposed a different, simpler solution.
Dijkstra was one of the early pioneers of software development. He made important contributions in compilers, operating systems, and distributed systems. But he didn’t claim that advances in these areas would lead to more reliable software. What he thought would make the most significant difference was humility.
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