This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Python Buzz by Dmitry Dvoinikov. Original Post: The set of good programmers is still very small, a great joke by David Parnas Feed Title: Things That Require Further Thinking Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThingsThatRequireFurtherThinking Feed Description: Once your species has evolved language, and you have learned language, [...] and you have something to say, [...] it doesn't take much time, energy and effort to say it. The hard part of course is having something interesting to say. -- Geoffrey Miller Latest Python Buzz Posts Latest Python Buzz Posts by Dmitry Dvoinikov Latest Posts From Things That Require Further Thinking

A reviewer explained his rejection of my best-known paper on the subject by writing, "Obviously Parnas does not know what he is talking about because nobody does it that way". Only a decade later, however, a textbook stated, "Parnas only wrote down what all good programmers did anyway". A logician would conclude that the set of good programmers was empty; that set is still very small.

-- David L. Parnas