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Ukraine Holds 4th Largest Programmer Population

Posted by timothy on from the it's-the-water dept.

andrewuoft points out this BusinessWeek article on the budding technology sector of Ukraine; the article points out that Ukraine has -- "after the U.S., India, and Russia -- the fourth largest number of computer programmers in the world" and that "Even today, scientific institutes each year churn out some 50,000 science or technology graduates. Not surprisingly, Ukrainians don't see why their country can't become a big player in the global technology market, like India."

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  1. Quality Not Quantity by derEikopf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the future of technology needs more than anything is the reversal of the quantity philosophy. More is not always better.

  2. Re:speak for yourself, object. by derEikopf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed, that is where people like Linus Torvalds make an odds-defying explosion into mainstream computing. However, there is more to my statement than just programmer population. Quality also refers to program quality. Not half-assed buggy software that was hurriedly released because of a dealine, and then half-assed patches and updates that were also released on a deadline.