[jdiez17]

The ideas behind this article are good. The author gives some guidelines that have helped them write better software. However, it makes me think about how we can make "making software" better. It seems like the best current way of going about it is to implement these zen-like self-discipline techniques that have helped the OP.

What's so inherently wrong about software? Why is it so damn difficult to write software that doesn't explode if you don't hold your tongue at the right angle?

[JustSomeNobody]

"Why is it so damn difficult to write software that doesn't explode if you don't hold your tongue at the right angle?"

Hubris mostly.

[dasil003]

I don't know, it takes a certain amount of hubris to write any software at all.

[thallukrish]

this is what i think http://productionjava.blogspot.in/2014/12/why-is-it-difficul...