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Representation is the essence of programming.
-- Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month)

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Representation is the essence of programming.
-- Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
-- Fred Brooks (On adding programmers to a late-running project)

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Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
-- Fred Brooks (On adding programmers to a late-running project)

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Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
-- Fred Brooks (On adding programmers to a late-running project)

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

#Quotes #Software #Manpower #FredBrooks

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -Fred Brooks, computer scientist (19 Apr 1931-2022)

Bumped into this NYT obituary for Fred Brooks. Somehow I had missed it in 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html

#FredBrooks #BrooksLaw #IBM360 #OS360 #MythicalManMonth

@SteveBellovin

Adding #ComputerHistory #Computers #IBMS360 #Bits #Bytes #History #FredBrooks tags to this, so it can be picked up (hopefully) by Mastodon searches.

Topic: Historical note on how 8 bits make a byte.

@b0rk

My tribute to #FredBrooks. He was a contemporary of Jerry Weinberg at IBM and possibly the first person to use the term "architecture" for computers. Jerry said to me -

"Fred asked me if I thought the term 'architecture' was appropriate for what he was doing in designing the 360. Nowadays, with the term 'architecture' bandied about in meaningless ways, I regret that I told him it was okay."

Fred Brooks overleed vorige week. Een markante persoonlijkheid die ooit na een gefaald project bij IBM ontslag wou nemen. Zijn baas wou dat niet.

https://janvandenberg.blog/rip-fred-brooks/

#ibm #fredbrooks

With the death of Fred Brooks, a friendly reminder: the key takeaway people have from his book is usually misquoted.

You *can* add more engineers and get projects done faster if the tasks are *parallelizable* and there is clear agreement about the interactions (example: software contracts).

"When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule."

#fredBrooks #management #programming #projectManagement

Maskierte Interrupts und mythische Mann-Monate: Zum Tode von Fred Brooks

Im Alter von 91 Jahren ist der Informatiker und Computer-Pionier Fred Brooks gestorben. Zwei Sätze aus seinen Schriften wurden zu "Computer-Gesetzen" erklärt.

https://www.heise.de/news/Maskierte-Interrupts-und-mythische-Mann-Monate-Zum-Tode-von-Fred-Brooks-7346587.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.-.-

#Nachruf #FredBrooks #RIP

@jswilkins @ehud

Is worth reading for anyone interested in computation #histodon #sociology. I've encountered versions of the MMM concept in all of kinds of primary sources. RIP #FredBrooks

@pleia2
Oh, such sad news! 😢
#showmeyourcopy
#FredBrooks

Sad to hear of the passing of #FredBrooks. Truly a giant in the field. We’d all do well to remember Brooks’ law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

"Fred Brooks, Jr.: Birth of the 360 Project" via the Computer History Museum: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/162/2270

His dunks on JCL are hilarious #FredBrooks #JCL #column73 #mainframe

I notice that my first inclination was to go to Twitter and search for Fred Brooks and read all the eulogies. It’s a shame that this isn’t as easy to do here. Hopefully people will remember to use a hash tag. #FredBrooks.

RIP #FredBrooks a legend in computer science and software engineering. His Mythical Man-Month book should be required reading for people in the field and is also a historical milestone.

Mourning a legend.

How often do we bring up the Mythical Man Month? #showmeyourcopy #FredBrooks

I shall have to update my "compressed history of operating systems since the abacus to the modern server" talk to include the fact that we owe 8-bit bytes mostly due to the #NSA's requirement (listen to Brooks explaining it) 🧐😁
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RT @BrianLinuxing
An excellent clip of #FredBrooks of #IBM on the System 360 and adoption of the 8 bit byte https://youtu.be/9oOCrAePJMs
https://twitter.com/BrianLinuxing/status/1593641826036097031

Fred Brooks in The Design of Design asks which design constraints are real and which are misperceived, intentional constructs, or obsolete.

RIP Fred Brooks
#FredBrooks

RIP Fred Brooks, whose works profoundly influenced me, like so many others. "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination." #FredBrooks #SoftwareEngineering #RSE

It may be a coincidence of timing, but Fred Brooks's death just now makes me think about micro-blogging sites:

"Plan to throw one away - you will anyway"

#fredbrooks #mythicalmanmonth

I remember buying the Mythical Man month book almost 15 years ago. I was so excited and a PM I worked with asked why...

I opened to a random place in the book and read it and we both went... shit that is good.

It was such a powerful read

RIP Fred Brooks

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