From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Latin, Shakespeare, and other irrelevant topics
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 16:00:07 GMT
Date: 2001-02-08T16:00:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95ufq1$sdi$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 95uav7$nfb$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <95uav7$nfb$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> In article <3A824CF4.940EA80E@PublicPropertySoftware.com>,
> Al Christians <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > How is it that single authors produce the most praised
> > literary works, but egoless, pair, and team-oriented
> > approaches are favored for software
> > works?
>
> Perhaps because software projects have more in common with
> engineering tasks than fine art. This does not mean that there
> is no artistic element. When a team designs and builds a
The analogy Fredrick Brooks used in "The Mythical Man-Month" was
building a Cathedral. His archetype is Reims Cathedral, whose builders
supposedly stuck to the original plan and style, despite changes in
architectural fashion, through the multiple generations it took to build.
--
T.E.D.
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2001-01-26 16:31 ` Latin and other irrelevant topics Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:24 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-27 5:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-27 13:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 0:08 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 3:51 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 13:00 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-29 1:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 4:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 5:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 6:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:39 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 18:53 ` David Starner
2001-01-30 6:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 19:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-02 22:11 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 0:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-29 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-30 1:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 23:05 ` kopilovitch
2001-02-02 21:52 ` Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes " Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 16:32 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-05 19:36 ` Al Christians
2001-02-07 18:59 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-08 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 5:15 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Buz Cory
2001-02-08 7:38 ` Al Christians
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2001-02-08 16:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-02-08 19:47 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-26 21:06 ` Latin " Lao Xiao Hai
2001-02-08 16:02 Latin, Shakespeare, " Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2001-02-10 6:47 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-02-08 17:46 ` sk
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2001-02-11 16:55 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
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