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> only available only certain days of the week. WTF? Hilarious. Conways law in action. "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce desig
by irq-1 11y ago
> only available only certain days of the week. WTF?
Hilarious. Conways law in action. "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
- dang 11y agoI recently learned that Mel Conway (the same Conway) did some of the earliest work on recursive descent parsers. http://www.melconway.com/Home/Inventor.html http://www.melconway.com/Home/Inventor.html Appel's compiler book credits him with the invention, but Cooper and Torczon cite one earlier reference. Edit: poking around that site reveals an article which seems like it deserves a thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273710.
- agumonkey 11y agoSlightly related, I learned today that the 4-color theorem Appel is Compiler Appel's father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_co... https://twitter.com/agumonkey/status/708681730278989824 https://twitter.com/agumonkey/status/708681730278989824 (all this after reading that prolog primer http://www.cpp.edu/~jrfisher/www/prolog_tutorial/pt_framer.html http://www.cpp.edu/~jrfisher/www/prolog_tutorial/pt_framer.h...)
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