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From: Michael Stark <mstark@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN]
Date: 1999/02/18
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dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> 
> In article <7ad7bv$sf9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>   robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > In article <7acbfk$c0t@drn.newsguy.com>,
> >   kevin@nospamworld.com wrote:
<snip>
> > Kevin, I hope you are not saying here that you have never
> > read "The Mythical Man-Month". This should be required
> > reading for everyone in the field, and if you have not
> > read it, I strongly recommend you do, I think you will
> > find it informative and fun :-)
> 
> Complete agreement here (including the "required reading" part). I've never
> read another book where I exclaimed "Yeah!" out loud that often.

Mythical Man-Month is indeed required and a good read, but Peopleware
elicited just as much vocal agreement from me, if not more!

BTW -- Mythical Man Month has a 20th anniversary update that is worth 
buying even if you own the original.  It has 4 new chapters at the end,
including the famous "no silver bullet" paper and a following chapter
discussing the critical response to that paper.

Peopleware is supposed to have a 10th anniversary edition coming out.
I have yet to see it in Borders, though.

Mike
> 
> T.E.D.
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Michael Stark
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