Re:Some of my favourite programming books
by tomwphillips on Sunday November 27, 2016 @08:53AM
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I tried The Mythical Man Month but gave up. Found it extremely slow. I don't understand why it gets so many positive reviews.
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Re:Some of my favourite programming books
by kwhitefoot on Sunday November 27, 2016 @09:15AM
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It's also very short so it should still be easy to get through even if it isn't especially gripping.
It gets a lot of positive reviews because it is from a highly credible source who actually did what he was talking about not just wrote about it and because it describes conditions that still obtain; more than forty years later we still haven't learnt all the lessons.