"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I have found that in complex systems, it's all about well-defined interfaces. If
> your interfaces are poor, the best unit implementations will get you nowhere.
> You will get all kinds of poorly understood errors, because of race conditions
> or deadlocks between units, or other such crap, often being sporadic and
> timing-dependent, and therefore both hard to notice in the first place, and
> hard to hunt down.

Oh, and worst of all: Once you find and identify one of those bugs, each
module's developer will insist that *his* module is perfectly ok, and that it
is the other modules that need to be fixed. Yay!

And once you implement a workaround, chances are you break something else...

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