Part IV. A HERD OF PROGRAMMERS?
Cubicle after cubicle, arranged in long, dreary rows. A soul farm. The corporate drudgery of unrealistic schedules, bad management, and disastrous software. No natural light and awful coffee.
Welcome to the software factory.
Some programmers freelance, hopping from office to office. Some write open source code at home for kicks. But most are institutionalized in uninspiring software factories, serving time for a cause they still love passionately.
We’re a funny bunch: antisocial by nature, preferring the company of a compiler and web browser. However, to create software masterpieces, we are forced to work together, against our natural instincts. As we’ll see, the quality of your software is determined by the quality ...
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