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From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/15
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Robert Dewar <dewar@MERV.CS.NYU.EDU> writes:
>Sounds like you are reacting to the quote, and not to the book. The author
>never implies that all code can be built in a garage by two people. I think
>you must be misremembering what you read?
>
    It's been a while since I read the book - true. And yes, I may be
    reacting more to the comments than the content of the book. But I
    seem to recall that Brooks had some sort of idea about a "Software
    Surgical Team" which had the coding genius as "head surgeon" and
    the rest of the staff working for the coding genius - which sounds
    a _little_ like the couple of guys working in the garage scheme.

    While I'd personally like to be declared "head surgeon" and have
    the whole staff put to work for me, I'm not convinced that this
    will ever happen (unless I start generating code in my garage! ;-)
    A small fact of life standing in the way is that it's the guys who
    control the ca$h who will always control the operation. You can
    choose to spend your time writing software or writing budgets &
    schedules. It's pretty hard to do both.

    Still, it's nice to dream, eh?

    MDC

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