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by rzzzt 1926 days ago
The other often repeated quote is about pregnancy.
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Yeah but software is not a baby and software can very well have modules and APIs.
It also does not like to be split cleanly into as many parts as there are people working on it; development work is not an embarrassingly parallel problem.
The longer people work between coordinating with others the more code has to be rewritten.

People do not like rewriting code, so add time for all the bickering.