Abstract

Gerald M. Weinberg's The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition is this month's Passages selection. Weinberg died last August, but this book alone makes him immortal in the world of software engineering. The Psychology is one of my favorite software engineering classics, and one of the books that originally motivated this column. Tim Budd gave me my first copy, when I was a young and ignorant professor at Oregon State, when he retired (the opposite of the usual retirement gifting procedure) and I read it with great pleasure and attention for the first time, not long after, and began to form the idea of Passages not long after that. Why did I not write about it before this?

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