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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by coldcode on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:21AM (#16520830)
I also love this quote: "When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw’s region calculation routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put “-2000″ on the form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the form, and he gladly complied."

Even back then we had stupid process.

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Re:MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010) by dboreham on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:55AM (#16521023)
>Even back then we had stupid process.

Having done this since then, my feeling is we had _more_ stupid process back then than today. It'd take a few hours and a few drinks to get to the bottom of why, but I recall the publication of books like "Code Complete" (1994?) as the beginning of the widespread push back against complete stupidity such as ISO9001.

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