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So how does one audit this Behemoth?

Tl;dr: "Sell your customers what they want, make them pay what you say, be sure they're rich enough."

Best paradigm busting advice in business after "If you can secure just 0.1% of the chinese market, you'll have 5 milion customers" and "Always remember: profit is revenue minus expense".

So what year are we in, again?

Shallow piece. Tl;dr: haters gonna hate.

For verly large values of one hour.

The analogy between coding and music is actually quite flawed.

If school is currently teaching this, it is seriously failing its mandate. This does not mean that using sort(3) as a solution to a sort assignment should be acceptable.

> "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified

The two sides of your equation do not equate at all.

<<I don't mean that we should not be political in our actions, today.>>

Y not?

<<...early hacking was a-political is because hackers were fairly despicable a-social people.>>

That is what made it fun.

That was what came to my mind, actually.

That (cultural differences in thought patterns) is indeed an interesting take (I'd like to hear what Larry Wall has to say about it). I do think it would be best addressed at the background level (say predicate logic or somesuch) than at a programming language level (which is more of a consequence).

Unfortunately, the "unfairness" thing has hijacked many subthreads and it takes the proposal at face value (as in "Wouldn't it be cool if any programming language was available in localized form, charset, keywords and kaboodle?" - no it wouldn't) .