The Software Inferno
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Dante’s tale, as experienced by a software architect
To my great relief, Lady Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, offered to serve as my guide in the quest for the true path but warned that the journey ahead would involve passing through the Software Inferno, a horrible place of eternal punishment for those who have committed sins in the realm of software development.
The countess bade me to follow, and I behind her kept.
Ante-Inferno
“Leave every hope, ye who enter!” read the inscription on the gate at the edge of the Software Inferno. Here were sighs, laments, and deep wailings resounding through the starless air. Strange tongues, horrible cries, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and hoarse, so were the unwelcoming environs of the Software Inferno.