소프트웨어 개발 방법은 정말로 개선되었나?

/.을 살펴보다가 예전 수업시간에 읽었던 "No Silver Bullet(관련 링크 참조)"어쩌고 하는 주제가 있어 살펴 보았는데 이곳에서도 이야기할 만한 주제라 생각되어 올려 봅니다.

"earnest_deyoung asks: "Twenty-five years ago Frederick Brooks laid out a vision of the future of software engineering in "No Silver Bullet." At the time he thought improvements in the process of software creation were most likely to come from object-oriented programming, of-the-shelf components, rapid prototyping, and cultivation of truly great designers. I've found postings on /. where people tout all sorts of design tools, from languages like Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk to design aids and processes like UML and eXtreme Programming. I'm in a Computer Science degree program, and I keep wondering what "improvements" over the last quarter century have actually brought progress to the key issue: more quickly and more inexpensively developing software that's more reliable?"