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>Were the programs implemented by a less numerous but higher quality workforce I think the state of software would be much better. While I understand the desir

by vitd 12y ago

>Were the programs implemented by a less numerous but higher quality workforce I think the state of software would be much better. While I understand the desire to improve the quality of programming, I don't think what you're proposing would do that. I think all it would do is encourage horrible enterprise practices to spread and create vendor lock-in as smaller companies become less able to compete.

fsloth 12y ago
" I think all it would do is encourage horrible enterprise practices to spread and create vendor lock-in as smaller companies become less able to compete." I suppose it depends on whether the seed population in this parallel universe were composed of lisp hackers or architecture astronauts :)