Ken Nelson

Apparently, spaghetti of the Counter Insurgency inter-relations in Afghanistan:

means you can’t win a war.

But spaghetti like this, of the Model E GISS climate modeling simulation source file interdependencies, should be trusted implicitly:

I know war can be complex. And I’m quite familiar with how thorny software complexity can be.

But if you have concerns about the one, shouldn’t you about the other?

I know… I ask too much!

BTW: This is not to impugn the folks at NASA who expose themselves by posting their source code on the net.  I don’t know any specific issue about the quality of the NASA software. I can, however, measure its complexity. And I can guarantee you, at the level of complexity measured, it probably has hundreds of significant bugs. As does virtually ALL software of similar complexity and size.

Software graph done by “Understand” from Scitools.