Where did software quality go ?
A while ago I met with an ex Technical Director of a very large game company here in Vancouver. I was working for a local company myself, and we met about a possible project between the two companies. While going over the details we reviewed some legacy systems that they would be working with, the software quality was less than ideal. The statement he made quite a few times that got me thinking was - " all software is messy and usually bad, and that's just the way it is ". To which I instantly thought : “The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti I'm not sure if this was just his defeatist attitude, or one that had been fostered from coming from a corporate environment that was steeped in technical debt and that usually worked to the lowest common denominator. Though it did make me think - as I don't accept that, at all, so why do so many others? In my experience people who create technology typically a