On 8/19/2011 8:33, clipka wrote:
> Most bloody likely not.

*Essentially*.  Of course all the floors aren't built quite the same, but 
they're all variations on the theme. They're each a mostly a subroutine 
invoked with varying parameters, rather than being designed from scratch 
each time.

Or, put it another way: You build a housing development with 400 homes. How 
many of those do you build from scratch, vs how many do you effortlessly 
copy after you've built the first one?

There's an *essential* complexity to software that you don't get from 
hardware, because there's no such thing as a subroutine outside of the world 
of information.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   How come I never get only one kudo?

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