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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by vegai_ on Saturday October 02, 2021 @05:50AM (#28727369)
If what you're saying is true and those software are mediocre at best, this implies that software quality and success have no correlation. Or perhaps that software quality is not at all what the users of this site tend to think.
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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by jcelerier on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:38AM (#28728126)
> this implies that software quality and success have no correlation.

I mean, like in most other fields no ? Most successful movies, books, foods, artworks, furnitures, ... are fairly different from the best ones.

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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by vegai_ on Saturday October 02, 2021 @01:12PM (#28730214)
But the least successful art is in every measure bad. I mean for example the movies that score 1.0-2.0 in imdb. But yeah, perhaps the comic book movies are not unlike Wordpress.
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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by kubb on Saturday October 02, 2021 @08:10AM (#28727968)
Quality of code is not necessary for success, nor does it guarantee it.

It does improve your quality of life as an engineer, I can promise you that.

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