Software Is Not Like Cheese

I just read in a friend's blog that a programmer once said, "Software is not like cheese."

I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for almost thirty years. In all that time, I've never heard anyone compare software to cheese. It's mind-boggling. This warrants further consideration.

First, I consulted SpellWeb, one of the prophets of the god Google:


9,460,000 votes for software
2,510,000 votes for cheese

The Web decides (courtesy of Google) that software is more popular.


Well, sure, I could have told you that. But it's not enough. A few minutes of meditation, fortified with Cherry Coke, yields the following thoughts:

Ways software is like cheese:

• They can both have bugs.
  
• They can both stink, though in different ways.
  
• They can both have holes.
  
• You wouldn't want your sister to marry one. (Unless it's a big one?)
  
• There are many different kinds.
  
• People like to share them.
  
• The French think they do it better, but they're wrong.
  
• The more quality control, the better.
  
• You don't want it if you don't know where it's been.
  
• They are often associated with crackers. If you know what I mean.
  

Ways software is NOT like cheese:

• Cheese and Spam is good, software and spam is bad.
  
• You can cut the cheese, you can't cut the software.
  
• Cheese doesn't have tech support. Software does, but it's overseas.
  
• There's no such thing as American processed software-food.
  
• Software ends with a blue screen of death, cheese with a bleu scream of death.
  
• If the cheese is bad, you can't patch it.
  
• Cheese comes from milk, software comes from caffeine.
  
• You don't go to Wisconsin for the software.
  
• You don't want to back up your cheese.
  
• There's no such thing as fumunda software.
  

So there you have it.


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