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@bobbiechen.com

New blog post on the 1989 "Zero Defects" memo at Microsoft - there really are no new ideas in software engineering. digitalseams.com/blog/zero-de...

digitalseams.comZero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989 — Digital Seams“We are not suggesting this is attainable on the first try, but we think we know how to get there.” There are no new ideas in software engineering, only ones we’ve learned and then forgotten. In 198...

@bobbiechen.com

Of course, heard of the memo via @stevesi.xyz's excellent Hardcore Software, a memoir of his time at Microsoft during the PC revolution.

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