Comment on Node ant

Tony BenBrahim — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:34:28 -0500

With all due respect to the author, $35 million per year to maintain a 420,000 line program is expensive. Most organizations and consumers are not willing to shoulder than kind of expense. And no, this kind of process is not standard in every engineering discipline. There are tradeoffs for example in automotive design, it is possible to design and build a car that never breaks down, but would anyone be able to afford it? Yes, there are more rigourous engineering processes when the stakes are high (airplanes, chemical plants, etc..), but they come with commensurate costs.