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