Comment by javajosh
5 years ago
Software is to alchemy what software engineering is to chemistry. Software engineering hasn't been invented yet. You need a systematizing scientific revolution (Kuhn style) before you can or should create a regulatory body to enforce it. Otherwise you're just enforcing your particular brand of alchemy.
Well said. In the 1990s, in the aerospace software domain it was a once referred to an era of “cave drawings”