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Fred Brooks was right

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Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.

That line’s been in my head since yesterday for boring work reasons. The important part is thank goodness for SQL files. The ones I can understand, anyways.


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Added to vault 2024-01-15. Updated on 2024-01-26