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Summary: A profound thinker who also knows about bits and bytes.
Review: "Despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years - perhaps decades - short of the mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information-age society."This sentence quoted from the September 1994 issue of Scientific American starts us on a marvelous journey to figure out why, indeed, this should be the case. Mr. Beckett comes from the old school of programming, the school of open standards and shared code, that school which orignally created the internet, and which is resurfacing in the Open Source movement. Not only does Mr. Beckett thoroughly dispel the many modern-day myths about how programming should be done, he also examines the broader implications for our society. This is a work which has the "ring of truth". Read it. You won't be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: A profound thinker who also knows about bits and bytes.
Review: "Despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years - perhaps decades - short of the mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information-age society." This sentence quoted from the September 1994 issue of Scientific American starts us on a marvelous journey to figure out why, indeed, this should be the case. Mr. Beckett comes from the old school of programming, the school of open standards and shared code, that school which orignally created the internet, and which is resurfacing in the Open Source movement. Not only does Mr. Beckett thoroughly dispel the many modern-day myths about how programming should be done, he also examines the broader implications for our society. This is a work which has the "ring of truth". Read it. You won't be disappointed.
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