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

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:21:44PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> The harder stuff is when you put a man on the top of it, and you try to 
> make it reliable.

I like to say: rocket science is easy. Rocket /engineering/ though,
that's another story!


I guess asm might be the same. Doing the individual parts is trivial,
but getting a full, reliable program out of it can get difficult.