Joel Spolsky has written an entertaining article called Hitting the High Notes in which he ponders whether it makes sense to talk about a company having the “best” programmers. In this day and age of cost reductions and outsourcing, Joel bucks the conventional wisdom and makes a case for quality. Here’s an excerpt:

Essentially, design adds value faster than it adds cost. Or, roughly speaking, if you try to skimp on programmers, you’ll make crappy software, and you won’t even save that much money.

I don’t know Joel, but I like him already.

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