Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. - Fred Brooks

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Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

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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 programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.
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