Visual Studio Magazine - Guest Opinion - Software is Too Darn Hard

Visual Studio Magazine - Guest Opinion - Software is Too Darn Hard: "Software development is too darn hard. As an industry, we spend more time discussing 'plumbing' issues like Java versus .NET, or .NET remoting versus Web services, than we do discussing the design of the actual business functionality itself.
Even when we get to the business functionality, we spend most of our time fighting with the object-oriented design tools, the form-designer tools that 'help' create the UI, the holes in databinding, the data-access code (transactions, concurrency, field/column mapping), and the database design tools"