Monday, November 29, 2010

Infinite Monkey Theorom and Modern Software Engineering

Infinite Monkey theorem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theoremv) states that a group of monkeys collaboratively by random jumps on typewriters can write a book. More monkeys there are the probability goes up.

Now , a days most software engineers are asked to produce a visual effect , animation or graphics similar to an existing program. The existing programs might have come to produce the effect after a series of trial and error. The software engineer in question has to come up with something in a deterministic time frame something which "experts" took years of trial and error to achieve.

It is like competing with Infinite monkeys who wrote the book. One monkey ( or a small group ) achieved something , now all the monkeys have got urge to follow suit.

Vinasha kale , Vipareeda Budhi.

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