Leprechauns of Software Engineering

https://markgreville.ie/2025/03/17/book-review-leprechauns-of-software-engineering/

by gHeadphone • 1 year ago

43 3 1 year ago

Great book, read it too some years ago. I'd really recommend for anyone who wants to think a bit critically about these topics for oneself and just repeat techno mumbo jumbo all day long :-)

itsdrewmiller• 1 year ago

This book is good! I would recommend "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It" for the inverse - a positive empirical case for things that do work (with some discussion of things that have been studied without rejecting the null hypothesis). It's not a contrarian take so not quite as readable, but it's overall better to have answers than be able to quibble with the proposals of others.

gHeadphone• 1 year ago

Thank you. I’ve not heard of “Making Software”, but I’ll give it a read.

I’m always fascinated by what people believe, both about software, and in general.

Leprechauns of Software Engineering

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