I admit that I smiled when I saw a big response to me with chunks of predicate logic in it. Do you think the world would be better if programmers could not tra

I admit that I smiled when I saw a big response to me with chunks of predicate logic in it. Do you think the world would be better if programmers could not transition into the workforce until they had created something that no one had asked them to create? I'm not sure if the world would be better. There's an overwhelming demand for competent programmers, and not anywhere close to enough supply to fill it. Is it better to lower our standards, resulting in shoddy and sometimes dangerously bad work, or to leave things undone? However, for any given single institution, I am very confident that that institution would be better off hiring only people who had created things which nobody asked them to create. I agree that these are usually things which either nobody needs, or which are marketed poorly; but I don't see why that would indicate anything negative about the person in question (as far as the company is concerned.)