When
· Naughties
· · 2008
· · · August
· · · · 22 (1 entry)
Build One to Throw Away ·
This is a maxim from Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month. These days I’m thinking it’s the single most important lesson there is about software. It’s been brought rudely home to me by my recent work on mod_atom, whose design is terribly simple; but I still got the first cut wrong in important ways ... [9 comments]
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