On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:14:06PM +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: > The underlying problem for all programmers is that they want to get on > with the job, and get the product out there. Thus, code is written to > get the job done, and ignore the long term consequences.
but this is not restricted to closed source programming. in free software projects the same things can and do happens. i constantly see people complain about this or that ugly code someone wrote. the difference is how the programmers see their work. if you take pride in your work you will write good code. wether the source is closed or open and wether you get paid or not. if you only love the money you get from work then you will care less, and create the above result. we don't find out much about bad free software, because it doesn't get the publicity that good apps get since there is no marketing to hype them. greetings, martin. -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working and travelling in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
