martes, 22 de agosto de 2023

2 classes of system designers

Here's a devastating quote from Andy Kinslow (NATO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE ,1968) 


There are two classes of system designers. The first, if given five problems will solve them one at a time.

The second will come back and announce that these aren’t the real problems, and will eventually propose a solution to the single problem which underlies the original five.

This is the ‘system type’ who is great during the initial stages of a design project. However, you had better get rid of him after the first six months if you want to get a working system.


I found it in the Software Engineering conference pdf , but I didn't know anything about that "Andy Kinslow". And looking for that person, led me to some interesting findings, like an APL paper, or finding out that Andy Kinslow pioneered work on Time-Sharing-System, following leads of Corbato and Strachey

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