I should compile a library of people, book authors particularly, explaining software development practices using construction metaphors that is, making an analogy with an industry most readers understand less well than they understand software development
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Is software development like or unlike building a bridge? I don't know! I don't have the faintest clue what the process is for building a bridge! And, author, I have a sneaking suspicion you don't either
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Is software like knitting a sweater? Raising a child? Tending a garden? Could be! /gestures wildly around a room containing none of these things/
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Replying to @qntm
Software is like making one of those conspiracy theory wall maps out of coloured string, sniffable glue, and clippings from Stack Exchange.
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Have you ever actually done that? I recommend it. It's very liberating and creative
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