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I like how the meeting minutes(1) from 1978 resemble software development meetings of today. Especially Paul (Laughton) did have the same mentality as programmers today:

  Nobody who has looked into the DOS is sure why bug #2 exists

  Paul felt that bug #3 was trivial and he already knew how to fix 
  it.

  Paul said that he could spend either3 to 4 days documenting the DOS, 
  or he could fix the bugs, and wanted to know which we wanted.

  Paul still expressed some doubt as to what was causing bug #5, and 
  bug #2 was a mystery.
(1)https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3data.computerhistory.org/atchm/do...


No kidding. You could replace "DOS" with "______", then fill in any software project, and it would sound pretty spot on.


I will continue to be like that until software development takes quality seriously and be accountable for defects, like in other industries.




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