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I think this is confusing code with output. If you work for a company that builds medical software, then your output is something like quality-adjusted life yea
by strken 3y ago
I think this is confusing code with output. If you work for a company that builds medical software, then your output is something like quality-adjusted life years for patients and has nothing to do with the code you incidentally use to get there.
Taking the view that none of the software you wrote is still running is a bit like an automotive engineer who thinks none of the car models she worked on at the start of her career are still in production. Well, no, they're not: but does that matter? Millions of kids got driven to school by cars she helped design.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoEven if you measure that way... again... most software industry businesses fail/disappear from the market. Outside of the largest companies, their business solutions tend to be transient.
- strken 3y agoI agree, but that's the human condition, not some software industry peculiarity. As per Shelley: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.