top | item 46304545 (no title) lifeformed | 2 months ago Has the quality of software been improving all this time? discuss order hn newest seanmcdirmid|2 months ago The volume of software that we have produced with new tools has increased dramatically. The quality has remained at a level that the market can accept (and it doesn't want to bother paying for more quality for the cost of it). gilbetron|2 months ago Absolutely. I missed the punch card days, but have been here for the rest, and software quality is way higher (overall) than it used to be. tester756|2 months ago Sure, people were writing terrible code 25 years agoXML oriented programming and other stuff was "invented" back then
seanmcdirmid|2 months ago The volume of software that we have produced with new tools has increased dramatically. The quality has remained at a level that the market can accept (and it doesn't want to bother paying for more quality for the cost of it).
gilbetron|2 months ago Absolutely. I missed the punch card days, but have been here for the rest, and software quality is way higher (overall) than it used to be.
tester756|2 months ago Sure, people were writing terrible code 25 years agoXML oriented programming and other stuff was "invented" back then
seanmcdirmid|2 months ago
gilbetron|2 months ago
tester756|2 months ago
XML oriented programming and other stuff was "invented" back then