On Perceptions of Indian Developers in the West
In response to Ram's blog Perceptions of Indian Developers in the West On comparing the capabilities of developers, here is a typical experience. We took over a significant but small piece of software couple of years ago. It was written by one person in C, way back in late 1980s. Let's call him Adam. Adam had used an environment that was available then. He had no version control and no documentation. It had been backed up on another server. That was the only version available outside of Adam's machine. Though the organization was particular about software development standards, this one was left as is - for fear of breaking anything or antagonizing Adam or both. It was a program that was closely guarded, possibly not out of any insecurity, but just circumstances. It was using Adam's own data structures, could have been rewritten to make use of databases and other libraries. But not done, for no one saw value in...