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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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Is Software Invisible and Unvisualizable?

This is the section of this paper that on my first read through, I didn't really care about. And then on my third read through for today's podcast, I actually enjoyed this section and I've highlighted pretty much all of it. Here is where Ivan will go on a 30 minute rant. No. If this episode feels 30 minutes longer than normal, which will be longer than it should be,30 minutes longer than it ought to be. Yeah. So the next and fourth and final quality that Brooks suggests is essential to software that comprises the essence of software, at least as far as he cares about it, is invisibility. The theory of a program is invisible and unvisualizable

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