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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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The Essence of a Software Entity Is a Constructive Interlocking Concepts

In the theory building view, the running code is not part of the theory. But I think here it would have to be essential. The choice of data sets relationships among data items and invocations of functions can be considered essential. Why like the choice of algorithm as an essential part? I don't get that. So he says, the essence of a software entity is a constructive interlocking concepts. All of that is a big sea of green with one little pink bit in the middle which is algorithms.

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