"At the USENIX annual conference last month, Gmail engineer Adam de Boor surprised the audience by noting that the company's Gmail service was written entirely in JavaScript, and that all of its code, around 443,000 lines worth, was written by hand."
Ignoring the inaccuracy regarding Javascript, what is so surprising about writing code "by hand"? Am I missing something?
Ignoring the inaccuracy regarding Javascript, what is so surprising about writing code "by hand"? Am I missing something?