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The Benefits of Indolence.

The author discusses the issue of software developers going above and beyond to fix problems. He mentions the policy of his software company Zerocracy to refrain from being altruistic and the problems of dealing with legacy code and lack of software libraries. The article presents comments from othe...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 10 - 12
Main Author: Bugayenko, Yegor
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2019
Subjects:
Computer software development
Altruism
Legacy systems
Software libraries (Computer programming)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The author discusses the issue of software developers going above and beyond to fix problems. He mentions the policy of his software company Zerocracy to refrain from being altruistic and the problems of dealing with legacy code and lack of software libraries. The article presents comments from other programmers regarding the topics he discusses.