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What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?

shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com 7 min read

Current ideas about the best way of building a software system are heavily influenced by the ideas that captured the attention of previous generations of developers. Can anything of practical use be learned from studying long gone techniques for building software systems?

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Software EngineeringHistory & Retro Computing2021

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