Yes! A wonderful book I read many years ago. There used to be a saying I
heard, which management practices universally. If a woman can produce a
baby in nine months, then nine women can produce a baby in one month.
The only problem with Gates is that he has no real competition. Linux is
probably the closest, and they don't really have a cutting share of Bill's
market.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Eggink
To: Orion-Interest
Sent: 4/21/01 7:01 AM
Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]
The following is one of the classic readings on programming at large. 25
years old and I
can still recommend it:
"The Mythical Man-Month" from F.P. Brooks jr.
Yes, it's even 26 years old and talks about OS/360, some odd system
which is now out
performed by your 100$ marketvalue Pentium I machine, but programming is
done by
humans which haven't much changed over the last 25 years.
On the experience I have had so far with large projects I can only agree
with him. Changing
one of his 'laws' slightly:
"Adding more programmers to a product makes the product worse".
So far I have not found evidence against this law ;-)
FE
On Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:06 PM, Jay Armstrong
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Generally, I agree with the comment about Micro$oft quality of code,
though
> I've seen some pretty horrible code from outside the US, too. :)
>
> Bill Gates may be from the US, but Micro$oft employees come from all
over
> the world. Visit Redmond, WA, USA and you'll see for yourself.
>
> At 09:50 AM 4/19/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >And Micro$oft programmers are from...?
> >
> >I suppose that the country they're from produce the shittiest code of
em all
> >:)
> >
> >Johan
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM
> >Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea
> >
> >
> >> Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is
Sweden
> >> full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways
just to
> >> make the rest of the world's jobs harder.
> >>
> >> I say we all start using Bavarian products, if only because
Bavarian names
> >> seem to have a better vowel/consonant ratio.
> >>
> >> Say, Randy... what country are YOU from? (That's the leading
indicator for
> >> quality of code...)
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:49:24AM -0500, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
> >> > Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up
brainstorms to
> >promote Orion, but it occurred to me that both Mysql and Orion are in
> >Sweden. Now I don't know how big Sweden is, but perhaps a meeting
between
> >the two teams could find ways to mutually promote or bridge the two
> >products. Just a thought. Speaking of Sweden, since Rickard O.
from Jboss
> >lives there, does anyone know of Magnus or Karl have meet him? In
once
> >sense, but Jboss and Orion are trying to make this EJB technology
available
> >to more people.
> >>
> >> --
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> >> Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> http://epesh.com/ IT Consultant
> >
> >
> >
>
>
