Greg Wilson made the talk "What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True". The gist of it is that we're too much willing to be

Greg Wilson made the talk "What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True". The gist of it is that we're too much willing to believe bloggers without experimental evidence (e.g "DSLs are good"), and not willing enough to follow/apply proven scientific results ("code reviews significantly reduce errors" ). That was 10 years ago. Today, he writes: > "The best way—in fact, the only way—to improve productivity is to improve quality" This is a highly controversial statement (with which I agree, but that's not the point), stated here without supporting evidence. Are we supposed to trust him? Where's the Greg Wilson from 10 years ago? He could have been the evidence-based software guy giving the software industry the push it needs towards more proof/experimental-studies!