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944b3b1 Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. software-engineering software-development einstein programming Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
da5f20a Managers of programming projects aren't always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you're a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you're inviting your programmers' ire. Here's a list of religious issues: # Programming language # Indentation style # Placing of braces # Choice of IDE # Commenting style # Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs # Choice of methodology--for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary delivery # Programming utilities # Naming conventions # Use of gotos # Use of global variables # Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day software-development Steve McConnell
36110a2 El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la caracteristica de lograr que los treintaneros se sientan decrepitos computer-engineering software software-development computer-science Neal Stephenson