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by osullivj 1067 days ago
Zachary's Show Stopper covers this ground in a very readable manner, and gives a lot of useful detail on Dave Cutler's design ideas, and DEC VAX VMS background.
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easton 1067 days ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, but that book was excellent. Shows that people 30 years ago were having precisely the same problems on big software projects we have today.
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andsoitis 1067 days ago
> Shows that people 30 years ago were having precisely the same problems on big software projects we have today.

An interesting question is: why are we still having the same problems today? why haven't they been solved yet?

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oaiey 1067 days ago
Because our industry barely left their baby shoes behind it. We are not even teenagers.

And why our brilliance does not make a difference: it is a human problem :)

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