Every once in a while I find a fun post that makes fun of programming. I think because the author is struggling with some piece of code, they write about the craziness of software development, often with an analogy that compares building something in the real world to how software programs get written. Here's one, with a bridge construction analogy, that degenerates into a rant on the disparate ways in which different programmers work together and how the entire world of the Internet is held together in a constant patch-fix loop.

I do think that most large software applications have a decent amount of inconsistency. I'd suspect most large databases (in terms of object count), also have a variety of techniques, tools, and standards in use. That's because the tooling that we use to build things change. We don't have the constraints of the real world, which is why we could have a stored procedure using a subquery to calculate a running total and another one that uses the OVER() clause.

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