Historically it has been easy to claim that programming is merely incidentally complex but hard to actually produce working techniques that can dispel the complexity.

The truth is that programming is one of the most complex human undertakings by nature, and many of the difficulties faced by programmers - such as the invisible and unvisualizable nature of software - are intractable.

There are still no silver bullets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~xswang/Research/Papers/SERelat...