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Programmers tend to look at shitty programs and imagine better ways that it could have been done... In practice the competitor to a shitty program is not a bett
by lmkg 9y ago
Programmers tend to look at shitty programs and imagine better ways that it could have been done... In practice the competitor to a shitty program is not a better program, but no program at all. Even shitty software can still make the world a better place, and the preponderance of half-assed bug-ridden brain-dead garbage software should be seen as a good thing.
- bald 9y agothank you. I have the feeling that many participants in this overall chauvinistic discussion here see themselves as artists that always produce perfect outcomes, ignoring the history and productivity of the software actually in place.
- eru 9y agoAnd on this positive note, you might want to have a look at efforts to make spreadsheets better: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/improving-worlds-popular-functional-language-user-defined-functions-excel/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/improvi...
- eru 9y agoHell, we even look at good programs and imagine we could have done them better.