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On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 11:07:50 PM EDT, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the
> collective power to fix it.

ahem, Microsoft would like to enter the chat...
Apparently "unlimited" funds doesn't help either.

I'm gonna go with this is an unfixable problem. The quality of the workers is for the most part so bad, you can't manager your way to a solution.
Unfortunately, modern life requires way more code than the handful of actually good programmers can hope to address.

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