Do you think any part of "The Pragmatic Programmer" book is no longer relevant? Has any part of the book become more relevant/useful?
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Over the years, the "no broken windows" rule gains significance from what I see regarding coding in our environment.
I don't think that any part has become obsolete.
This is the beauty of software-development related books that do not focus on specific technologies.
Gerd Klima
2009-11-10 22:26:40
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The great thing about the Pragmatic Programmer is that little (perhaps none?) of it is technology-specific. I still refer to it today, 10 years later, and I think it's the most relevant book in my bookshelf even now.
Brian Agnew
2009-11-10 22:28:30
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I can't think of much that isn't relevant today. Similarly, look at the Mythical Man-Month... how many lessons in that book are still relevant? The funny/sad thing is we (as an industry) are still constantly forgetting the lessons presented in those books, decades later.
Shaggy Frog
2009-11-10 22:30:09
good point - and "The Mythical Man Month" is no less that **35 years** old! :-)
marc_s
2009-11-10 22:32:09
Indeed. We're still stuck in the proverbial tar pits :)
Shaggy Frog
2009-11-10 22:39:17
+1 for nothing ever changing :-) still as hard as ever..
rama-jka toti
2009-11-10 22:47:03
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It's one of the rare almost timeless pieces.. But 'tracer bullets' is being challenged in many fast-paced environments.
rama-jka toti
2009-11-10 22:30:16
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Good practice is fairly timeless. Many of its tips, like designing for concurrency whenever possible, are if anything more relevant than ever.
mbarnett
2009-11-10 22:32:32
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The tip "Use a Single Editor Well" I think is becoming less relevant. IDEs are becoming more specialized to the languages they support. Most people wouldn't(or couldn't) use the same editor/IDE for Java/.NET/Objective-C etc...
I'll use my text editor of choice when I can, but I'm not going to use anything but VisualStudio to program in .NET on windows.
Perhaps I'm nitpicking that point, and the authors implied non-GUI development?
KPHutt
2009-11-10 23:05:37
Most IDEs will let you use an alternative editor instead of the built-in one, and their central point is still valid; learning one editor well will speed you up vs playing the "well this week I'm working on VB in VS2003, so what's the shortcut for find-symbol-under-cursor this week..." game.
mbarnett
2009-11-10 23:09:08
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CVS you don't want. Page I marked from 2000 ediion is page 179, common O() notation, added distributed algorithm runtime.
LarsOn
2009-11-11 00:26:03