Lone Coder: Prioritizing Solutions on Difficult Projects

[Ken Burtch]

Another of my monthly blog entires.

"...In the book "Software Creativity 2.0", veteran software pundit
Robert L. Glass (Home Page) explores creative development under the
strict discipline of a business setting. In Chapter 1.8, Mr. Glass looks
at P. J. Plauger's (Home Page) concept of "The Falutin' Index".
"Falutin'" is a slang term for something pompous or ostentatious
(AlphaDictionary). Mr. Plauger uses the term to mean "complexity" as in
a "high falutin' project" being a complex project. In Mr. Plauger's
original article, he suggested that there are high falutin' projects,
high falutin' programmers, and high falutin' solutions. Likewise, there
were low falutin' (simple) programmers, problems, solutions and
projects. If you assign a high falutin' programmer to a well-defined low
falutin' problem, you could get an inappropriate, over-engineered
solution. If you assign a low falutin' programmer to a well-defined high
falutin' problem, you could get an inappropriate, under-engineered
solution..."

http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_january_2010.html

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