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Most likely because they cannot afford to risk that someone will steal the intellectual property of their slow and bug-ridden language implementation.
by gnuvince 16y ago
Most likely because they cannot afford to risk that someone will steal the intellectual property of their slow and bug-ridden language implementation.
- hga 16y agoWell, there's one big advantage to the whole Slang system and that is that it's integrated throughout the company and the system can be used for relatively quick "what if?" and "where do we stand?" queries. Instead of the data being embedded in a zillion (often incorrect) spreadsheets and small databases or whatever that have to be manually scraped, reported and consolidated, it all happens automatically. It may not be "fast" but it's a lot faster than manual methods. ADDED: see this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581604 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581604
- ivenkys 16y agoFrom what i know that was the original intention behind Slang and SecDB. Standardization of use across different departments and in some ways a way to subvert the politics.