Academic pressures may be very different from commercial pressures. A commercial context may turn out to be more innovative, ironically. My experience with an academic environment was that ideas took second place to politics, and innovation was not encouraged. That's one reason I left.
-pc
The pressures on commercial software development (mostly lack of resources such as time and money; get the product out of the door) are what results in many of its characteristics.
I imagine many of the pressures on CS research are the same. Whether they are stupid or not depends on where you are sitting. Yes, they can lead to people having to making apparently non-optimal decisions, but what organizational structure is free of such defects?
I agree there is no point ranting on about the state of affairs. But I think these issues need to be faced up to, not swept under the carpet.
derek
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