Blast from the past (re: Fred Brooks)

[d000hg]

Fred Brooks Has Died - Slashdot

Author of The Mythical Man-Month and other seminal writings on software project management

I was reminded by this of the Joel on Spolsky [software, my typo ] blog which I used to love as a young developer (though really back then I was just someone who hacked code), I'm sure Joel referenced this book several times.

Today's read was a classic but how many modern developers have even heard of Netscape? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/...ver-do-part-i/
I saw someone comment on the Fred Brooks news claiming that many developers don't even know it used to be common to try and estimate in man-months which gave me pause for thought. I'd never considered there were people who only know software planning using story points and so on?!

[SueEllen]

You are now one of those who were around when you started working.

When is waterfall coming back?

[vetran]

You are now one of those who were around when you started working.

When is waterfall coming back?

never really went away it wraps agile on big projects.

[tazdevil]

Yes Netscape Navigator, Mosaic browser, AltaVista search engine, them were the days and DEC being leader of the pack

[d000hg]

You are now one of those who were around when you started working.

true although I have been coding since I was 5 so I was familiar with obsolete tech before I even started working... GWBASIC was my first exposure taught by my dad, then I found a random copy of Microsoft C 5.0 in the house in my teen years. A long way from the heady heights of Visual Studio 6

[SueEllen]

true although I have been coding since I was 5 so I was familiar with obsolete tech before I even started working... GWBASIC was my first exposure taught by my dad, then I found a random copy of Microsoft C 5.0 in the house in my teen years. A long way from the heady heights of Visual Studio 6

[vetran]

true although I have been coding since I was 5 so I was familiar with obsolete tech before I even started working... GWBASIC was my first exposure taught by my dad, then I found a random copy of Microsoft C 5.0 in the house in my teen years. A long way from the heady heights of Visual Studio 6

real men used Turbo C, I bet you don't even own Sandals!

[d000hg]

real men used Turbo C, I bet you don't even own Sandals!

I used what I found in the cupboard that my dad had taken from work. There was also an 8086/8088 assembler and that was it until I discovered C++ as a teen, though I cannot remember what toolset this was using now. I do remember longingly reading the adverts for Watcom C++ (11?) in the back of magazines

[vetran]

I used what I found in the cupboard that my dad had taken from work. There was also an 8086/8088 assembler and that was it until I discovered C++ as a teen, though I cannot remember what toolset this was using now. I do remember longingly reading the adverts for Watcom C++ (11?) in the back of magazines

Turbo C was a compiler an old friend lent me early in my career.

[d000hg]

Turbo C was a compiler an old friend lent me early in my career.

I do vaguely recall the name... back in the days when it really mattered which you used (because most were terrible) IIRC? We don't know we're born with the tools we have these days