Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--22d973-If we assume that the intellig/en

If we assume that the intelligence of programmers is the same as the intelligence of mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers and chemical engineers and so on, what's going to happen? Those of us with the easiest field, fundamentally, are going to push it further. We make bigger and bigger things and eventually it becomes hard again. That's why we can develop much bigger systems than the people in the other fields. They just have these hard problems to deal with all the time. In the other fields, it may be necessary to develop an idea. You may have the idea, but then you may have to try out lots of different ways to get it to work at all. In software it's not like that, you have the idea and what you go and do is you write a program which uses this idea, and then the users may like it or not. And if they don't like it, probably you can just fix some details and get it to work.