[benthumb]

As much as I respect John Carmack, I have to say that I'm a little disappointed that he is rehashing this meme of software development not being a science... OK, wonderful, the state of the art in his shop doesn't rise to the level of being a consistently reproducible, measurable process, but that doesn't mean that this is a permanent condition or that its an insurmountable one.

[rapala]

I didn't get the same impression that you got. To me, Carmack is saying that the biggest thing to focus is how to enforce the known best practices. That we need to understand the social aspects of software development well enough to reap the benefits of improvements in the engineering side. There is science involved in that, but it is mainly stuff from the social sciencies.