________________________________________________________________________________ / A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems \ | have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, | | those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are | | the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, | | APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them | | with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS. | \ -- Fred Brooks / --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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