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A review by ninj
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg
5.0
Great exposition on the Chandler team, regarding a specific project, as well as software in general. Didn't check the final mix, but it was feeling like the project was only about a third of the material.
Great references too, from Kay and Lanier, to the coining of Software Engineering and its first conferences. The issues of scale, the comparisons to other disciplines and art vs science.
Whilst it instantiates many instances of pain as the team slip backwards and sideways on their grand vision - or, hell, on just getting any software further advanced and written - it is often inspiring, aided by the discussions with either those on the team or outside it musing on their passions and thoughts and ideals.
Great references too, from Kay and Lanier, to the coining of Software Engineering and its first conferences. The issues of scale, the comparisons to other disciplines and art vs science.
Whilst it instantiates many instances of pain as the team slip backwards and sideways on their grand vision - or, hell, on just getting any software further advanced and written - it is often inspiring, aided by the discussions with either those on the team or outside it musing on their passions and thoughts and ideals.