Apparently they've been building it since the 80s.

What's wrong with PDF as a format? Compared to HTML/CSS, it's positively elegant.

Management isn't dumb. They have incentives that are different than yours, and they chase their own incentives.

If you're a startup, you're breaking other people's things. You don't have any of your own stuff to break.

If you put an object into a list, queue, stack or hashtable, then you need to have a plan to remove it otherwise you have a memory leak.

I agree with your post, but for sales, it's often more important to be pretty than functional.

You should, it's a great language.

It doesn't take more effort (it does take more skill). Some people say it takes more time up front, and that may be true, but it pays off within days if not hours or even minutes (meaning total time required is less).

There are several reasons for this:
1) A major part of KISS is reducing redundancy. You are literally writing fewer lines of code.
2) The benefit of refactoring tends to begin earlier rather than later (ie, move your methods around, rename variables) within the first 500 lines of code.
3) Most of the time of software development is in testing. Well written code requires less testing.
etc

They can do long term planning, but their incentives are about doing things that improve their own career. (If you want people to change, their incentives need to change).

It's also management driven. If you want to climb the ladder, you are incentivized to get more people below you on the management tree. If you want more people below you, the easiest way is to slow your guys down so you need to hire more of them. Managers really don't want your people to be more efficient.

Microsoft and the communists have something in common. I'm shocked.

How are those layoffs working out for you? Get the last white guy out yet? There's probably some prize money if you do. Hope those thick accents make you feel better. Keep a bucket of cat litter around for the smell.

P.S. I took my skills with me. My software doesn't suck. Eat a wet bag, pigfucker. Say hi to your wife and my kids.

Zhirinovsky pretty clearly wanted to control Eastern Europe. He wanted to control Russia, as well.

The Ukraine war is one parting present from the old snake Kissinger. If he can't play ball, no one can.

Then explain why you think it's more maintainable, don't just throw comments without reasoning.

Having personally looked at the old GNU C code, it did not appear particularly difficult to maintain.