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Deserves the black bar, in my view. Probably one of the most widely-discussed and most oft-cited writers among hackers of multiple generations. He will always
by pixelmonkey 4y ago
Deserves the black bar, in my view. Probably one of the most widely-discussed and most oft-cited writers among hackers of multiple generations.
He will always be remembered for “Brooks’s Law”, colloquially, “adding people to a late software project makes it later”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
And for his timeless essay, “No Silver Bullet”, which introduced the idea of accidental vs essential complexity in software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
RIP.
- RantyDave 4y agoMMM is one of the very few things we all agree is right.
- randomsearch 4y agoThere are not many universally agreed truths amongst us opinionated hackers, but indeed Brooks has bequeathed us one.
- jwmcq 4y agoThis is the best way I've seen it put.
- dunk010 4y agoIf anything deserved the black bar it was this. Shameful that it didn’t happen.
- pixelmonkey 4y agoIt did happen, actually. It was put up shortly after this comment and taken down about a day after the news.