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The Mythical Man-Month Revisited

Posted by michael on from the still-mythical dept.

jpkunst writes "Ed Willis, over at O'Reilly's ONLamp.com, gives his varied reactions to Fred Brooks' classic The Mythical Man-Month, after 'having finally read it in its entirety'. '[...] simultaneously you can see just how much the field has changed since the original writing and just how much has stayed stubbornly the same.'"

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  1. Re:My Thoughts by oliverthered · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most of your work is in Java and C# (yuck) because I expect your doing scripting and glue, maybe a bit more core functionality if Java but nothing my little sister couldn't do.

    If you were doing more techinical work (that I wouldn't expect my little sister to do) then I expect you'd use a more technical language, like fortran, c, c++. with a bit of prototyping in Java, VB or .Net if you want to.

    Swing=C (because Java's slow at GUI's)
    Windows=C (because .net's slow at GUI's etc...)

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