Re: dealing with lower level programmers
On Jul 27, 5:34 pm, Andrew Tomazos <and...@tomazos.com> wrote:
On Jul 27, 4:03 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have personally seen a 400k line codebase that was
written largely by one person that was (and maybe its
latest versions still is) used by nearly a million people
with minimal marketing.
And? A lot of people are using a lot of junk.
The software in question won numerous high profile awards in
the face of competition, and people described themselves as
"huge fans" of it. It was noted not only for its nice user
interface, but for its amazing robustness. It was most
certainly good software. Its existence disproves your
statement.
And of course, you won't tell us what it was, or give us any
other means of verifying your claims. (Windows NT also won some
awards, and a number of people liked it, but it's hardly what I
would call good software.)
[...]
It has been known for some time that good programmers can be
100x effective than average ones.
It has been known for some time that the world is flat, too.
Actual measurements, of course, have proven the opposite, but
that doesn't bother some people.
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