Software Applications Should Work Like Restaurants

I went to a restaurant today and one particular thing struck me there. It made me really interested in writing this brain dump blog post. It was about the fact that restaurants and software applications have a lot in common in terms of how they (should) function. One common characteristic I know is coming from very clever and kind Steve Sanderson on his talk on asynchronous web applications and I won’t go into details on that. I would like to focus on the other common functional characteristi...