Do you hate modern western software?

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[–]C3P0 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Can you offer a side-by-side comparison of western software versus eastern software? I don't think there is any difference.

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Western culture is one culture. The east has many cultures. As one example, I think nginx reflects Russian culture. It is lean and well designed, but not user friendly. The modern west is incapable of producing something like nginx.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's quite possibly one of the most ignorant things I have heard. Undoubtedly spoken by a westerner.

Good luck telling the Quebecois, Mexicans, or Peruvians that their cultures are all the same.

It sounds queer, but the word "western" is supposed to even include European countries such as England, Spain, France, Italy, etc. and even Australia (which is by no means "in the west.")

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I looked at the source of nginx. It just looks like a normal C program, include statements, for loops, if conditions, etc.

The word culture typically encases things like music, food, paintings, or literature. (I suppose you could really stretch the meaning to include the artistic implementation of a computer program.)