Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:43:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

You *do* realize that the “waterfall” method (what you described above)
was only put up as a strawman in a 1970s research paper to advocate for
more versatile software development techniques? Nobody in the real world
worked that way -- not successfully. Because it was a recipe for
producing software that was out of date by the time it shipped.

In most of our interviews the CTO would pop in at some point and ask the
candidate to explain the waterfall method. Then he would leave and we
would go back to figuring out what he or she really knew.