Comments on: Why Good Programming Projects Go Bad https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/why-good-programming-projects-go-bad/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:15:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Congo Sam https://www.isegoria.net/2014/01/why-good-programming-projects-go-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-1092537 Congo Sam Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:50:06 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33836#comment-1092537 The last paragraph makes sense to me as a practitioner, at first glance, but when you think about it a lot of late projects now are paint-by-numbers CRUD DB applications that contain nothing new — and good hardware engineers get new projects done more or less on schedule regularly, as in the OS/360 project he mentions.

So I’m not sure it’s that simple. I think the aggregate psychological quirks of software guys may be a factor. Speaking of which, I should have been out of bed half an hour ago.

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