[yasth]

People have tried to build software like Civil Engineers build bridges. It becomes frighteningly complex and involved to make a stop light controller, and you end up wanting to throw out functionality from your hardware because it makes things complicated or impossible.

I mean a lot of the problem is we generally spend most of our time thirty abstractions away from what is actually happening, and often times those abstractions leak. For goodness sakes few of us are even protected from cosmic rays changing bits in our ram, which happens fairly frequently.