[HN Gopher] The evolution of developer experience in the 20th ce...
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       The evolution of developer experience in the 20th century (2020)
        
       Author : mooreds
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-02-05 01:13 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | gumby wrote:
       | What a wonderful article! Normally an article like this will be a
       | cursory discussion of a few 1990s Mac packages but this was
       | really good.
       | 
       | I joined at what the author referred to as the REPL stage, and
       | never used cards though the two eras overlapped.
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | We're all familiar with Brooks' injunction regarding flowcharts
       | and tables, but I've recently found the same sentiment expressed
       | at the dawn of the computer age:
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       | Booth & Britten, "General Considerations in the Design of an All
       | Purpose Electronic Digital Computer." (1947) p5
       | https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/7942/Bo...
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       | > _...once the form of the high speed memory has been decided,
       | most of the other components of an electronic computer become
       | semi-invariant._
        
         | bin_bash wrote:
         | I know it's popular, but I bet a lot of people haven't heard
         | the flowchart and table quote you're referencing:
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         | "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall
         | continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't
         | usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks,
         | The Mythical Man Month (1975)
        
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