[comp.arch] Mythical Man-Month

hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) (03/05/87)

Since Brooks's Mythical Man-Month book has come up here, I thought the
following might be of interest.  Quoted from the essay "People Are Our
Most Important Product", Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., in Software Engineering
Education, Gibbs and Fairley eds., Springer-Verlag, 1987:

	The peak year in sales for The Mythical Man-Month was only
	two years ago.  Yet the book was written in 1975, about an
	experience in 1963-65.  The fact that it has the slightest
	relevance now is a sad comment on the progress of the
	discipline.

(I suggest that further discussions of this be moved to somewhere
suitable for software engineering topics, not net.arch.)

Hal Perkins
Cornell CS