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Subject: Re: Commercial program strength vs. amateur program strength

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:56:17 12/20/01

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I can't think of a reason why commercial programmers would have an edge over
amateurs when coming up with good ideas/techniques.

It's possible that, due to the amount of effort they can spend, commercial
programmers have/test more ideas, and that's what accounts for the strength
difference between commercials and amateurs.

It seems likely, statistically speaking, that any good idea being used in a
commercial program can also be found in an amateur program somewhere.

-Tom



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