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  • Re: Official list of top C annoyances

    From Tim Rentsch@[email protected] to comp.lang.c on Fri Oct 16 03:59:22 2026
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    Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]d> writes:

    On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:54:17 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

    OTOH I would guesstimate that language features increase
    productivity by 50% or more.

    Fred Brooks analyzed the software-development productivity trend in
    his "No Silver Bullet" essay of 1986. This was included in the
    20th Anniversary Edition of his famous ?Mythical Man-Month? book,
    released in 1995.

    Basically, there had been an order-of-magnitude improvement in the productivity of software developers in the decade from 1975, after
    the publication of the first edition of the book. [...]

    The was some improvement, but nowhere near an order of magnitude,
    unless you mean a base a lot closer to 2 than to 10. Nor did
    Brooks's essay make any such claim.
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