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Comment by pretoriusB | Hacker News Reader

>Good grief, what a vast amount of supposition backed up by very little evidence or insight. "People often write bad code." Yes, we know that. "There's more than one reason for this." Yes, we know that too.

YOU AND ME know that. The title of the article is "What Compsci textbooks don't tell you", so I guess it is targeted at people still in college, to show them how things are in the "real world".

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Trust me, the example code that I get from my university is proof enough. And it makes me sad, because it makes my peers believe it's acceptable to write such poor code.

Yes, that makes me sad as well. I would not get a passing grade for that 20 years ago, now it's a B 'because it works'. This is too common and it's not acceptable.

If they are in college and don't have enough interest to already know that, then they are the problem..

Yes. And there are a shitload of them.

College offers you a way to live for free, do very little work and a massive range of social opportunities. A degree is inevitable and honestly secondary, they are not the problem.

I know what you mean, and if I thought this article was actually targeted at students, and with any intention of enlightenment, I would agree with you. I just don't feel it deserves that credit. It's wandering, poorly researched hearsay.

I would call it a hatchet job if I could tell by reading it what the target is, but it isn't even good enough for that.

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