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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 12:45:31 EDT
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- From: David Sewell <dsew@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU>
- Subject: Software omelettes
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- [The following quotation was posted recently to the Usenet
- newsgroup rec.humor.funny. Its relevance to the NB list should
- not be hard to determine... --DS]
-
- "Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron
- may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the
- actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be
- progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer
- has two choices -- wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the
- same choices."
-
- -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr, _The Mythical Man-Month_
-