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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN]
Date: 1999/02/17
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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:
> > In article <36C99BDF.BF0FA38F@mediaone.net>, Alan says...
> >
> > >not nearly the most important part of developing
> > >software.
> > >Experience has shown (and I recommend you to Brooks'
> > >_The Mythical Man-Month_)
> > >that the best coders cannot write reliable software if
> > >there is a bad
> > > architecture or design, and
> >
> > Well, offcourse the software will be bad if the design is
> > bad. (do you need
> > to read a book to know that?)
>
> 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.

T.E.D.

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