[Gllug] Recommended Books

[Rich Walker]

"Martin A. Brooks" <martin at hinterlands.org> writes:

> Rich Walker wrote:
>> Brooks, The Mythical Man Month.
>
> Yes, and yet no.
>
> This book (which, again, I own) will give you a peerless insight into
> the perils of producing system's software.
>
> I don't mean to belittle the work of GLUGGees and family, but this is
> unlikely to be you.
>
> At best, TMMM is outdated, referring to projects that, if you're my
> age, started when you were at toddler school and were deemed redundant
> before you were tapping '10 PRINT "Steve Nelson is ACE!!"'  into the
> BBC micro you used at school.

Well, except the descendents of System/360 are still making money for IBM.

>
> Suggest someone borrows a copy, sure, but don't inflict it on them as
> a present.

I reckon it's a fundamental book for anyone involved in
engineering. True, most programmers aren't, but that's their loss :->

cheers, Rich.

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