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What’s the real point of being a dev? It's saving management from themselves • The Register

'Of course, software production didn’t change radically into the component utopia that the academics had envisaged. '

'Deep in the mists of time, some 25 to 30 years ago, there was a belief that software production would change radically. '

'Software production would radically change, the experts predicted, so developers would be producing Lego-like components. '

'More O-O techniques found their way in but the basic model didn’t change. '

'This was a cost the academics and theoreticians of software production hadn’t calculated. '

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