In a message dated: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:20:45 EST
Ray Cote said:
>At 10:25 AM -0500 1/9/02, Bob Bell wrote:
>> Well, you'll be happy to know that all 6 or so of my fellow Taylor
>>University graduates here at Compaq (all graduating within in the last
>>4 years) have all read Brooks' _The_Mythical_Man-Month_ as part of
>>a software engineering course, at a minimum. :-)
>Cool! Another classic.
>Particularly enjoy the latest versions self-reflection on what the
>original book got right and wrong.
Yeah, that's the copy I have. I picked it up at SIGGRAPH a couple
years ago. I actually had the chance to get it signed by the man
himself, but couldn't get away at the time, so missed it.
(Not a great loss to me, since I hadn't read the book before then, nor
has he had as much influence upon me as say, someone like Evi Nemeth,
Peter Salus, Mike Gancarz, or Cliff Stoll even, all of whose books I've read
numerous times.)
I bought Brook's book because I've heard so much about it
over the years and wanted to see what it was all about. Ironically,
a month later, my wife informed me it was on her required reading
list for her masters program in Infomation Design!
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Seeya,
Paul
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God Bless America!
...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon
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