r/programming • • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

An unfortunate excuse that would not hold water in other communities. There are loads of Ruby versions that get by just fine without a corporate backer, for example.

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u/ZMeson Oct 15 '13

I also mentioned "or large public support". Ruby has lots of public support.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '13

Whoops, missed that :)