Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Boswell and the Project Chronicles
Summary: good programmers exist, but...
Message-ID: <2697@geac.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 12:29:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2697
Posted: Thu May  5 08:29:08 1988
References: <321@uwslh.UUCP> <40335UH2@PSUVM> <758@dlhpedg.co.uk> <41127UH2@PSUVM> <20437@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <20437@think.UUCP> fad@balder.think.com.UUCP (franklin a davis) writes:
>There have been several recent references to Brooks' CP model.  The
>main problem I see with it is that, realistically, few projects are
>lucky enough to find a "super-programmer" with the skills and talent
>to fill the role.  

   Well, its more like they lack the ability to attract them.  I
know at least four, all from my year at a single university.  Mind
you, at the time I met them, they weren't super yet, and therefore
had little trouble getting jobs.  Now that they're smarter than
their bosses, things get harder...

 --dave (first-class people hire first-class people:
         second-class people hire third-class people.
         my director prefers the first kind) c-b
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