Rocket Science (Was: Why C++ compiles slowly)

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> is hardly rocket science!
> Heh, funny thing about difficulty is how relative it can be. I've heard 
> people who do rocketry say that rocket science really isn't as hard as 
> people think. But programming doesn't come very naturally to most people, 
> either. It would be funny to hear one rocket scientist say to another rocket 
> scientist, "Oh come on, it's not computer programming!" 

Doing amateur rocketry isn't that hard, the formulas are simple and the more 
complex stuff (the engines) are off-the-shelf components. It isn't even that 
hard to build your own engines.

The harder stuff is when you put a man on the top of it, and you try to make it 
reliable.