Japanese control software for things like processing tools is horrible.

To me it shows that software is not just computer engineering. It's a type of problem-solving that's very cultural and at times, more based in creativity (something that's hard to formally teach) than math or physics skills.

 

What are your expectations for the impact your observation will have? To me it seems like the answer just might be zero.

 

What are your expectations for the impact your observation will have? To me it seems like the answer just might be zero.

Zero, it's just a fact as I see from personal experience since the 90's working for Fujitsu for ten years back then.

Japan is unlikely to be a software leader.

 

Zero, it's just a fact as I see from personal experience since the 90's working for Fujitsu for ten years back then.

Japan is unlikely to be a software leader.

So, you fancy yourself to be the great motivator that will foment a change in that situation.

 

So, you fancy yourself to be the great motivator that will foment a change in that situation.

No, that would be stupidity.

I wrote some pretty basic fab tool management display software for a old vax (VAX-C) and vt320 network at their site in the US. They seemed to be amazed and requested I write a version for a site in Japan via a long distance modem connection. IMO was sort of crazy because the software source was on their systems and they owned the source (but I did it) but also typical of my experience there with software development.