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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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Aristotelian Languages and Programming, Right?

Bob Greene: Fred Brooks thinks most of what we do is essential. He says if you're only attacking accidental aspects of programming, that means at least 90% of your efforts have to be attending to the accidents. That's not a 10x improvement; it's only a two-to-three x improvement. And so figure out if there is still even 90% of our effort going on with this accidental stuff," he says. "We don't have to sit here holed up over pigeonholes."

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