I'm covered in software engineering books at the moment writing up
conference stuff and I happened to crack open a copy of "The Mythical
Man-Month" and felt I should remind everyone about the...
--> *** SECOND SYSTEM EFFECT *** <--
which I'm sure we all know about but sometimes f
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:09PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> "The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all
> the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first
> one. The result ... is a 'big pile'."
> -- Fred Brooks Jr, "Th
(I think I've got the attributions right.)
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Speaking as someone that has often had to work on C, Perl, Verilog and VHDL
>
Michael G Schwern writes:
: PS Someone's going to argue that Perl 6 isn't a second system, its
: the Nth system. The exact value of N doesn't really matter, we're
: still very much in danger of the second system effect.
Yes, one need only read through all the RFCs to get an idea how bad it
could
... at http://archive.develooper.com/?M=D should now be updating
again. :-)
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