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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 2 Oct 2024 22:06:15 GMT
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On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:29:30 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-10-02, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> It was a year behind and in a complete mess, so they hired hundreds of
>> programmer, not one of whom knew what they were supposed to be doing.
> 
>     Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
>       -- Fred Brooks

That should be required reading for every manager. Of course they will say 
"but that was then..."  iirc the cover art was the LaBrea tar pits. There 
are a lot of projects in those pits along with the sabre-toothed tigers 
and other fauna.