On Fri, 14 May 2010 18:42:49 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> There are two kinds of drugs: Those that have side-effects, and those
>>> that have *no* effects.
>> 
>> I think that's somebody's point.
> 
> I had to parse that twice! ._.

Yeah, as I wrote it, I thought "this could be quite confusing". ;-)

>> If we waited until the product was
>> perfect, it would never ship (whether it's software, drugs, or
>> whatever).
> 
> It's not a good analogy. Drugs don't time a long time to ship because it
> takes time to improve them. They take a long time to ship because of all
> the multiple levels of safety testing that have to happen. (Speaking as
> somebody who works for a company in that line of business...)
> 
> I don't disagree that it takes time and money to build better software.
> I'm just saying this isn't a good analogy. ;-)

Well, yeah, it's not really a good analogy after a point, but there is a 
sort of iterative process used in developing new drugs, too - I think 
that's what somebody was trying to say. ;-)

Jim

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