Dreaming in code: two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software

417 Pages·2007·1.244 MB·English

by  Rosenberg, Scott

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Two
Dozen Programmers,
Three
Years,
4,732
Bugs,
One
and Quest
for Transcendent
Software
Scott Rosenberg
Crown Publishers • New York
Copyright © 2007 by Scott Rosenberg
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers,an imprint
of the Crown Publishing Group,a division of Random House,Inc.,
New York.
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trademark of Random House,Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to United Media for permission to
reprint a text excerpt from the comic strip Dilbert(May 4,2004).
Copyright © by Scott Adams.Distributed by United Feature Syndicate,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rosenberg,Scott.
Dreaming in code :two dozen programmers,three years,4,732 bugs,
and one quest for transcendent software / Scott Rosenberg.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Computer software—Development. I.Title.
QA76.76.D47R668 2006
005.1—dc22
2006020614
eISBN: 978-0-307-38144-6
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Software is hard.
—Donald Knuth,author of
The Art of Computer Programming