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The Mountain Dew-fueled all-nighter is history. Today's supercoders work 40 hours a week. And two to a computer. It's called extreme programming - and it's revolutionizing the software world.
do they issue cool superhero outfits now? There's also aa fascinating analyst quote further down in the story:
The software development process is profoundly screwed up. According to the Standish Group, which conducts an annual industry-wide survey, 15 percent of all information technology projects get canceled outright, costing the sector $38 billion each year, and companies spend $17 billion annually on cost overruns. Those products that are finally released contain just 52 percent of the features customers asked for. Throughout the industry, projects are chronically late - only 18 percent hit deadline - and consistently, maddeningly flawed. Estimates of the number of bugs contained in shipped products run from one defect in every 1,000 lines of code to one in every 100. According to Watts Humphrey in his book A Discipline for Software Engineering, IBM at one time spent $250 million repairing and reinstalling fixes to 13,000 customer-reported flaws. That comes to a stunning $19,000 per defect.
So here's a question. Most of these projects are using the popular, statically typed languages. Allegedly, static typing catches a lot of errors that a dynamic language would pass through. If that's the case, then why are all these errors getting into software?? The emperor has no clothes, and all of his acolytes are standing naked with him....
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