Warp wrote:

>   Does that mean that usually when you write software it doesn't work?

Varies by complexity.

Trivially simple things almost always work. More difficult things 
sometimes work. Really hard things never work at all. (Remember that 
operating system I was going to write? Yeah, that got a long way...)

Yesterday, I successfully implemented something that certainly looks 
pretty complicated, and I'm impressed that it works. But then, I was 
impressed when I wrote my first ray tracer - until I realised that 
*everybody* writes ray tracers and nobody except me considers this to be 
a significant achievement... :-(

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