Return of the homebrew coder.
Most modern software is written by huge teams of programmers. But there is still room for homebrew coders, at least in some unusual niches. The new craftsmen write software. This is because, as digital technology grows, consumers are running into problems. In many cases these programmers are making...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 370; no. 8366; pp. 10 - 12 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
3/13/2004
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