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Borland's hacker ethos is what greatly diminished the company. The company indulged a well-known programmer tendency to bulldoze and rewrite code. The company,
by narag 15y ago
Borland's hacker ethos is what greatly diminished the company. The company indulged a well-known programmer tendency to bulldoze and rewrite code.
The company, as in management, took wrong decissions. But the blame still manages to fall on poor programmers :-)
- mapgrep 15y agoI actually blamed the "hacker ethos," not the rank and file programmers, but the CEO of Borland was very much a coder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn
- narag 15y agoI don't think so. The Wikipedia article you link to doesn't support that claim anyway. I'd say he was a hacker, in the broad sense of the word, but not a programmer. That would be Anders. A comparison with Jobs and Wozniak comes to mind.
- mapgrep 15y ago> The Wikipedia article you link to doesn't support that claim anyway "As a student, Kahn developed software for the MICRAL, the earliest non-kit personal computer based on a microprocessor."