Re: hosers-talk: Fred Brooks, Turing Award Winner

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth "Jon Stewart":
> So Amazon delivered _Brilliant Corners_ and _The Mythical Man Month_ (20th 
> anniversary ed.) to my door yesterday and I finished TMMM around noon 
> today (making it onto the very exclusive Books Jon Stewart Has Actually 
> *Finished* list). 
> 
> It was a good book, a fast read. Not, perhaps, the revelatory screed 
> everyone gushes about, but I'd read so many reviews about it that I knew a 
> great deal about it beforehand. There were a number of very good ideas 
> and, using very simple mathematics and some graphs (and very little Greek 
> symbols; Brooks is my man), presented some stark evidence for why the 
> software process can be so crappy.

So, why can the software process be so crappy? And why is a "man month" 
mythical?

-- 
J.