Subj : Re: Cobol/gnucobol
To : Boraxman
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Jun 03 2025 12:24 pm
Re: Re: Cobol/gnucobol
By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Sun Jun 01 2025 12:19 pm
> Modern software behaves as if it has ADHD. I'm beginning to think it is
> programmed by mentally ill people, who give their software the
> characteristic of someone like them.
>
I think developers just don't give a damn, it is easy as that.
Most of my friends are coders. All of them have the mentality that they are in it for the money. They end their shift and they don't code a single line more until the very next day. While at work, the goal is to fulfill assigned tasks within the deadline so the boss is happy - if they have to throw a horde of libraries at a problem then that is acceptable unless the project manager complains.
I have had the conversation about the degrading quality of software with them quite often. Back in the 80s coders were developing games using straight opcodes with no assembler nor nothing because if you used high level languages people would complain about performance. Today, the people paying does not give a damn, therefore the people who codes does not either. If nobody cares if you have to waste the customer's RAM then there is no reason for a coder not to cut development time by importing a big library with a huge list of dependencies.
Some big customers would still resort to *genocide* if they could get a 0.5% performance improvement for the applications they run. People working on those applications tend to care for code quality and performance, because their project owner does, because the customer does.
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