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Subject: Re: [motm] Ken Elhardt's Patchbook Series

From: Jason Proctor <jason@...>
Date: 2006-07-15

>Being a professional embedded systems and app engineer for 18+ years and a
>hobbyist programmer long before that, I will say that this is a completely
>true statement.

and having been in software development for a similar number of
years, my opinion is that commercial "priorities", scheduling
"decisions", and cost-cutting on various essential factors (such as
QA) have a far greater influence on the quality of software in
general than the IQ of the programmers concerned!