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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

From: "It’s OK to Want to Have a Good Time":

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/01oasics/oasics-vol134-programming2025/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5/OASIcs.Programming.2025.5.pdf

Also, I enjoyed these moments:

"There are some problems where a certain threshold of experience is needed to be able to make progress on solving the problem, and it doesn’t appear to be possible to create a cumulative effect of inexperienced people to compensate for experienced ones."

And

"By far the biggest productivity problem in software development is understanding the purpose for which the software is being written, and not having to throw it away and do it again; something that studies of productivity rarely include."