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>>There are economic incentives to create larger and larger organizations; One of the real reasons why languages like Lisp and Perl had a short life in MegaCor
by kamaal 8y ago
>>There are economic incentives to create larger and larger organizations;
One of the real reasons why languages like Lisp and Perl had a short life in MegaCorps is they were anti-dote to large people hierarchies. You can disproportionate work with small teams.
Execs and VPs openly boast in company all hands about their 'team sizes' and numbers almost as the biggest accomplishment of their lives.
No one is going to buy any technology or methodology which shrinks their head count.
- kahoon 8y agoIf this was true, wouldn't everybody be programming in assembly? E.g. developing a website in assembly would keep more people occupied than HTML/JS/CSS.
- kamaal 8y ago>>If this was true, wouldn't everybody be programming in assembly? 'Assembly' is a abstraction. To a Perl programmer. Java's verbosity would look like Assembly.
- dasmoth 8y agoIf one were being cynical and thinking that optimising for (maximum) headcount is a major driver here, one might want to avoid technologies with substantial barriers to entry, since that might clear the market of qualified people and make further recruitment very hard. The "ideal" technology would be one where almost anyone can pick it up quickly and at least look like they're being vaguely productive, but where even a 0.01-%ile expert will struggle to achieve really exceptional things.