On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:40:25 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Heh. That's human nature. To quote: > > What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each > other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be > improved considerably, because there is a crisis. But there are a > few boundary conditions which apparently have to be satisfied: > > 1. We may not change our thinking habits. > 2. We may not change our programming tools. > 3. We may not change our hardware. > 4. We may not change our tasks. > 5. We may not change the organizational set-up > in which the work has to be done. > > Now under these five immutable boundary conditions, we have to try > to improve matters. This is utterly ridiculous. > > Edsger W. Dijkstra, on receiving the ACM Turing Award in 1972 Great quote. I forwarded it to a friend, his reply cracked me up as well (translated from german): > Oh, he said as early as 1972? > That the crisis still isn't over, that we are aware of. It's just > that at the moment, things are looking like this: > > 1. We are forced to change our thinking habits (Patterns, UML, ...) > 2. We are forced to replace all our tools (.net c#) > 3. We need new hardware (64bit anyone?) > 4. We need more flexibility (low level programmers are supposed > to be good pixel artists) > 5. We desperately need a new company structure. Greetings Benjamin
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