[bdamm]

Actually, part of the problem is the academic experience of believing that applying functions is hard and pushing bits is simple. It deceives delusional academics like yourself into believing it's just a matter of doing the work and not really a real computation problem at all.

No, in the real world, it's exactly the opposite. Nobody cares about writing a function because generally that's the simple part. Do it however you want. Deploying the system to take inputs and feed outputs, now that's the hard part. Where do those inputs come from? In what form? Are there security requirements to gather or push data? Do you store-and-forward or don't you? What protocol? Stateful or not stateful? Transactional or not transactional? The problems involved in "move these bits in this format on this machine to those bits in that form on that machine over there" are in fact so complex that you can't even prove it to be an NP-complete problem because the problem itself transcends algorithmic analysis. It is much more a social problem than a technical problem, but the social problem is so massive that any simple-minded technical approach will fail to address the scope of the issue and in every case I've ever seen, simply makes the problem worse.