Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose. - Fred Brooks

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Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

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Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was a computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, most famous for managing the development of IBM's System/360 Computer family hardware and then OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards.

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Birth Name: Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr.
Alternative Names: Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks, Jr Frederick P. Brooks Frederick Phillips
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: […] I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.

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…well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you – if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers – the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.

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