Fortune magazine interviewed Bill Joy after his departure from Sun Microsystems. The hardest part isn't inventing the solution but figuring out how to get people to adopt it. Software engineering as a discipline is in the Dark Ages ... We need a "condomized" version of Microsoft Outlook. Lately, instead of getting better with each new release, Windows is just getting different. You can't change the fact that it is human nature for people to carve up a problem and try to own things, for the complexity to accrete in corners, and for the vocabulary of the project not to make it all the way across. Juicy intervew with Bill Joy |