From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN] Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: <7ahui2$ce$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445803454 References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36c25c45.0@news.pacifier.com> <79v9f4$fe$1@remarq.com> <79vd9b$45k$1@remarQ.com> <7a1eir$6oe$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C8A705.597D432A@planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com> <7aablt$qqt@drn.newsguy.com> <36C99BDF.BF0FA38F@mediaone.net> <7acbfk$c0t@drn.newsguy.com> <7ad7bv$sf9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7aejan$hg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36CC3047.3D28@cs.umd.edu> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Feb 18 20:52:23 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36CC3047.3D28@cs.umd.edu>, Michael Stark wrote: > dennison@telepath.com wrote: > > > > 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! > Interesting you should bring that up, since I currently have Peopleware sitting in my backpack. I've been rereading for the last couple of days. I have to agree with that as well. Although the focus of Peopleware is on managment, there are several things in there which an individual engineer can use to try to increase their own productivity. T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own