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Writing software has proved to be one of the most successful professions of the last 30-40 years, yes, there have been (and there certainly will be) mishaps, bu
by paganel 5y ago
Writing software has proved to be one of the most successful professions of the last 30-40 years, yes, there have been (and there certainly will be) mishaps, but the world has changed considerably (for good or for worse) because of our profession. Software has indeed eaten the world.
Had this profession been a guild-like thing from the very beginning as the author of this article suggests then I think none of this would have happened.
- Barrin92 5y agoI don't take 'software eating the world' as positive. Finance has eaten the world as well, does that sound so good? The only reason it has a positive connotation is because the people quoting it tend to profit from it. If we took software engineering seriously overall we'd still have all the things where that's already the case. Compilers, machinery, infrastructure and so on. Sure we maybe would only have two delivery platforms that don't lose your data instead of 50 that do, but is that so bad? For many years now every time people discuss raising standards in the industry there's always the line of argument that we lose a whole bunch stuff. To me it sounds like arguing that banning people from pouring lead into the river loses you a bunch of companies. Sure, but good riddance.