However, I also feel that accurate information can
never hinder you.
Generally true, though I could probably construct a contrived
counterexample (think needle in a haystack).
(Based on the
resulting code quality, it seems to be a relatively
poor one in many cases, but that doesn't make it evil.)
I am not convicned
it;'s a motivator at all, at least not for the
better programmerns (and hardware designers) that Iv'e worked with.
Such people always turn out the best code/circuitry that they can.
Hmm. You may be right that it's not a motiviator to turn out good code
instead of crappy code, but I think it is, or at least can be, a
motivator to create code instead of, oh, say, going rockclimbing - or
to create code for the product in question instead of creating code for
something completely different.
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