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Steven M. Bellovin on Twitter: "Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the...

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Also the author of ‘The Mythical Man-Month’ and a real pioneer in the field. He will be missed. 😕
I don't think I ever met him, but he certainly influenced my career too. So sorry to hear this news.
Got an MS there in 1979. Even then, we disagreed on politics, but he was a great teacher and made the CS department what it is today.

Reading him in the 1980s was humbling, in that he had learned 20 years prior what I was just beginning to learn.

Salute!

Very sad news. Truly a legend in the field and an inspiration to many. :-(

RIP, Dr. Brooks.

The Mythical Man Month came up most often when we were trying to prove it wrong. We never did:)
I have had to introduce a lot of people to it over the past decade, mostly to steer them away from mistakes that they made anyway because they thought it was outdated.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks… about Fred Brooks: "The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere." May his memory be a blessing.
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I heard him say that! But there was more to it. Going to 8-bit bytes implied 32-bit words—what would the missing 4 bits do to floating point precision? It took a *lot* of measurement, simulation, and analysis to conclude that things would still work well.
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Roger's email was from three days ago—the copy forwarded by the chair elided the date.
I bought a huge book for one thing that was in it: The Mythical Man Month. Many years later I was privileged to hear him speak, at the Software Pioneers conference organized by Prof. Ernst Denert for sd&m software design and management. He apologized for JCL. A true pioneer.
Mythical Man Month has a huge impact on me. It sent me down the route of thinking about the process of making software and then into agile, DevOps, transformation etc. A loss to the industry!
Fred Brooks was a careful observer of process. The Mythical Man Month (1975) changed the way we computer people view projects and progress. The MMM book is still the goto reference for practical software engineering explained with insight, humor, and an occasional homily.

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