Yes, and the pun is that you get something after one month, but it is not a baby you
would like to have.
On Saturday, April 21, 2001 4:13 PM, Kemp Randy-W18971
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
