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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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Is There Any Algorithm That Does Sort?

I do think he just means existence, but I'll try one more time to defend it. The the time complexity of that algorithm does matter for being able to practically solve the problem. Fred Brooks here is very practically minded. He's definitely coming at this from a perspective of like saying that the essence of software is that it's runnable doesn't sit well with like the halting problem.

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