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Re:The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020) by twic on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:52AM (#27128815)
Shitty, poorly-run corporate behemoths (a) are shitty and poorly-run and (b) use Java, because it's an industry standard. You are making the error of thinking that the latter consequence causes the former.
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Re:The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020) by js8 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:34AM (#27129523)
Interestingly, the old COBOL/CICS/DB2 stacks do not seem to have this problem (and they are run pretty much only by corporate behemoths). Why is that?
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Re:The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020) by ajuc on Thursday May 13, 2021 @02:51AM (#27139185)
less hardware to throw around = better (simpler) codebase
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Re:The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020) by q-big on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:41AM (#27129143)
> Shitty, poorly-run corporate behemoths (a) are shitty and poorly-run and (b) use Java, because it's an industry standard. You are making the error of thinking that the latter consequence causes the former.

Other programming languages make it "more inconvenient" to apply such managament/programming practices.

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