Re:Software doesn't have to be unreliable... (Score 1)

Neither does it have to be perfect.

I use the following gage: if 80% of the software will cost (time + money) 1 unit, 90% will cost 2 units, 95% will cost 4 units, etc.

So mister decision-maker, the age-old question: do you want more later/costlier or less now/cheaper?

The fact is that good-enough software is often quite good (especially because the specifications process is so poor in almost any user-focused product that one can waste alot of time making a feature no one actually wanted). This is no slight on the programmers themselves - you CAN be a good programmer and deliver less than perfect s/w because after all you are only human and do like going home in time for dinner.