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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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What's the Essence of the Problem?

Software is not space, essentially space-based. We could get into that, but I don't think we need to. All right, so graphical programming, these are the things he thinks are not going to make a big difference. Then he gives us a list of things he thinks might. Promising attacks on the conceptual essence. This is why I found once I finally, multiple readings of this paper, made this so clear because I had the high-minded idea of essence. It's kind of obvious, but really what happened here was open source software by 95 or 96 or whatever.

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