People of ACM – Russ Cox
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People of ACM – Russ Cox
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#2> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
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#3I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.
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#4> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
An amazing distillation of the craft.
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#5> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
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#6Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
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#7> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
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#9> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book
And, yep, it's worth a read.
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#10I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.