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• That's Funny! (Score:1)

  by chromatic (983)

  Your comment on his post gives me the impression that you didn't understand Brooks's essay either. In my experience, almost no one does.

  I read the essay two nights ago, and all I have to say is that--whether due to Moore's Law or whatever, I don't care--I'm at least an order of magnitude more productive doing test-driven development with a language that supplies automatic memory management and the creation of domain-appropriate abstractions than I would be with the best language and platform available fo
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    "No silver bullet" means, according to Fred Brooks: "There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself, promises an order in magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." Despite the particular context of his assertion, I think that's generally true for anything in life. One thing isn't going to make the world a better place.
    
    You say that you're an order of magnitude more productive using test driven development and a language with automati
    • Oh yeah!? (Score:1)

      by sigzero (5768) on 2006.10.11 21:20 (#50973) Journal

      One thing isn't going to make the world a better place.

      Peanut butter. The world is certainly better off for it! And I won't hear any different.

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