On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Then there's the more direct meaning of literacy, which is whether one
> can rationalize large and complex projects written by other individuals
> or teams.  This is taught poorly, if at all.   Lots of emphasis on how
> to build systems, but less on modeling and deconstruction and
> rebuilding.
>

To pull from another discussion, this happens for the same reason that
positive results in scientific research is (unintentionally, perhaps)
favoured over unbiased results: individual success and competition between
individuals is, despite claims to the contrary, valued higher than group
collaboration.

-Arlo James Barnes
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