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> Yet somehow, slowly the system has morphed it into a way to grind talented people into the ground with impossible deadlines and insane demands - to the point where we need websites like this What is old is new again... > Still more significant, authority over the freewheeling brotherhood of programmers is slipping into the paws of administrators and managers -- who try to make the work of the programmers planned, measurable, uniform, and faceless. [0] [0]: http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/Ershov/aesthetics_and_the_human_factor_in_programming_ershov1972.shtml http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/Ershov/aesthetics_and_t...