GW-Basic

[Eric Smith]

Dwight wrote:
>  The only think I thought, as I read his point of view, was
> that since he was so great at coding and projects at uSoft,
> why has the product been so shitty for the years he was there
> and finally looks like it has begin to stablize once he was gone?

I can't explain any putative stabilization after, but certainly a
company with good technical managers can still produce bad software.
There's no way a good manager can force a "mongolian horde" programming
team (also sometimes known as an "army of golems") to produce a good
product.  It's hard enough to do that with a small team of carefully
selected expert programmers, and there seems to be a very limited
supply of those.

Eric