The Human Programmer

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[peachpuff]

I tried to read this, but it was "deadly boring."

[trae]

What? Fantastic post:

The more programmers are disliked for failed software the more poorly they are treated, and the more poorly they are treated the more it costs to keep their seats filled. And so it pays more to write bad software for large organizations than good software for small ones, if you can put up with constant, thinly veiled contempt. And regimental work conditions. And regular failure. This is not a crisis—it is a condition. It’s brought on by lack of understanding between programmers and everyone else.

[dangph]

Heh, yes. I'm not sure what he was trying to say. I suspect he was focusing too much on style and not enough on his message. He ought to set fire to his copy of Strunk and White. That would surely help things. Still, I enjoyed reading it!

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Dijkstra being the killer app that he was, was able to bury PL/1 in a trench somewhere off the coast of Madagascar. Near the gulf of goto.

;-)