Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:29:30 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-02, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

It was a year behind and in a complete mess, so they hired hundreds of
programmer, not one of whom knew what they were supposed to be doing.

 
    Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
      -- Fred Brooks

That should be required reading for every manager. Of course they will say
"but that was then..."  iirc the cover art was the LaBrea tar pits. There
are a lot of projects in those pits along with the sabre-toothed tigers
and other fauna.