#TURBO PASCAL FOR WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#
In my personal experience at my workplace I've certainly observed many times that the quote "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." is not universally true. But I agree it's plausible that combined they might amount to one single order-of-magnitude improvement (as compared to average early-1980s development), for the subset of organizations that apply all of them together effectively. I think collectively there have been advancements that have produced an order of magnitude improvement in dev productivity, but Brooks' claim was that there would be no one thing that eliminated 90% of a developer's work.īrooks' definition of a silver bullet was "an order of magnitude improvement" and certainly none of those innovations individually come anywhere close.
#TURBO PASCAL FOR WINDOWS 10 CODE#
It's for sure an order of magnitude improvement on the subtask of code collaboration, but it's not a silver bullet in itself.
For it to yield a 10x improvement, it would mean that programmers were spending at least 90% of their time passing around source code. This is a huge improvement over the previous flow of passing around ZIP files, but it doesn't yield an order of magnitude gain in overall productivity for a dev team. > We've got GIT, which is a huge improvement over ZIP files of source code stored on floppy disks. > single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. The things you mentioned are not silver bullets, as Brooks defined them. the ability to quickly and easily work from home, office, laptop and keep them all in sync, or any other coherent relation (working on a feature branch, etc) without major hassle. We've got GIT, which is a huge improvement over ZIP files of source code stored on floppy disks. but we haven't figured out, en masse, that we need that one yet. We could have capability based security, which makes it possible for a user to run any code without risking any side effects to files other than the ones they choose, like being able to plug in any lamp without burning down the house.
That's a huge improvement to productivity.
We've got IDEs that compile in a flash, compared to the interminable compiles of the past. That was a HUGE improvement in our productivity. Visual Basic/VBA/Delphi/Hypercard et al, made it possible for domain experts to get usable applications built, with little to no programmer involvement. We've had a lot of tools that were orders of magnitude faster than previous approaches to programming.
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