Peter Naur's view of programming
I think the author is seriously confused over the value of some crap his startup created in a couple man years vs actual products with market share, long term maintenance and thousands+ of man years of engineering&#x2F;testing&#x2F;documentation time. He even admits that they were rewriting large parts of it on a regular basis. That by itself indicates much of the code actually had little value, if the engineers themselves were throwing it away.<p>It would be really hard to convince MS&#x2F;Google&#x2F;apple&#x2F;etc that their primary products source code doesn&#x27;t have any value.