ashtonkem: To quote what you wrote two sentences afterwards: > 1) Programming language quality is a non-factor in business success. What TeMPOral wrote (below

ashtonkem: To quote what you wrote two sentences afterwards: > 1) Programming language quality is a non-factor in business success. What TeMPOral wrote (below) is is not quite the same in my view. First, they elaborate more. Second, there is a different argument: > Software side has so much slack in it that it can (and often does) do extremely bad job at making the actual thing and still succeed. Namely: it is NOT the case that software does not have a business effect. Rather, other aspects of the business have to work extra hard to compensate. To take a systems point of view: two systems can have the same output over some time period but very different internal efficiencies.