"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Back in the days of competitive compiler benchmarks, my compiler often won > them, up against those well paid huge compiler teams from MS, Borland, > etc. A friend told me once that the head of one large company used to yell > down the halls how come Walter sitting over his garage can beat you guys. > That made me feel good. >
Yea, what many people don't realize is that developing within a big business environment is *very* constraining, for various reasons. It really is much easier for a small informal group to write good software than it is for a bigger business environment. But somehow people are brainwashed into thinking that having know-nothing managers sticking their fingers where they don't belong is somehow supposed to produce better results. Larger resources and brainwashing (ie, "brand recognition") are the *only* advantages the business environment provides, all the other advantages go to the small informal devs.
