[anymouse]

Imagine if the World allowed slacker engineers. Bridges would collapse, buildings would crumble and airplanes would fall from the sky - routinely, just because the responsible engineer had a bad day and didn't feel like giving it his all.

Of course this theory falls apart when you talk about software. ;)

[grey_whiskers]

Imagine if the World allowed slacker engineers. Bridges would collapse, buildings would crumble and airplanes would fall from the sky - routinely, just because the responsible engineer had a bad day and didn't feel like giving it his all.

Of course this theory falls apart when you talk about software. ;)

If builders built buildings the way that programmers write software, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

See also Microsoft.

Cheers!

PS I agree with the original poster, even though I have a PhD and a postdoc in molecular physics.