Comment by ferguess_k

20 hours ago

'David Cutler' types are definitely not popular, in his prime time or in nowadays. My only regret is that I have never worked under such a person.

People assumed they could "modernize" software engineering, but, at the end of the day, it's still mostly engineering and very slightly about software. People optimized for the wrong thing.

  • Yeah, system programming is especially similar to real engineering I guess, which requires a certain characteristics.