brunner@sri-spam.istc.sri.com (Thomas Eric Brunner) (03/06/87)
In article <522@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >In article <101200003@datacube> dje@datacube.UUCP writes: >> >><some wrong stuff> >> >The author is Fred Brooks, Jr., the chair at North Carolina, publisher: chair of what eugene? > >YOUR "author's solution" is wrong. He recognized we can't do things >right the first time. Unix was not done completely right the first >time. Brooks said many things, but not this. He said among other >things: > Prepare to throw one away >and > Adding manpower to a late project will make it later. > >I think he was also one of the first to coin the word "prototype" with >respect to software. I suggest your buy the book. It's inexpensive, >and sadly, one of the better works of the field (we have not learned >much since then). Sigh, Eric chose <insert very high profile person here> for the next usenix speaker, rightly seeing that he (Xxxx) would be broadly appealing, Fred was the other choice. My folks worked as system hacks, on the 67 amongst other things - and the kitchen table was always pinned to the floor by dumps. Some things are by their nature very difficult and hard to "get right the first time". Anyone for a game of tennis or a life at engineering? -- how about a great big spidery "X"?
news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) (03/06/87)
Organization : California Institute of Technology Keywords: From: jon@oddhack.Caltech.Edu (Jon Leech) Path: oddhack!jon In article <9920@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> brunner@sri-spam.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner) writes: >>The author is Fred Brooks, Jr., the chair at North Carolina, publisher: >chair of what eugene? Creator and chairman of the UNC-Chapel Hill CS department from 1964-1984, according to a pamphlet they just sent me. The current chairman appears to be Jay Nievergelt. -- Jon Leech (jon@csvax.caltech.edu || ...seismo!cit-vax!jon) Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group __@/