I've never understood Shakespeare to have much renown as a software engineer, though I suppose I've never understood him to be a particularly poor one either.

You appear blissfully unaware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

I'm aware of the theorem, but I was being willfully ignorant to achieve a primary goal of making a joke. The secondary goal was to point out that the engineers the Chinese are hiring are probably better at programming than Shakespeare was. Regardless, the tone of my comment was in line with that of the comment I was responding to -- surely anybody hiring engineers would not judge the venture a success if they found the engineers had reproduced a number of plays from a particular Victorian playwright.

Elizabethan not Victorian.

Whoops, good call.