Stephen J. Gould on Baseball : May Relate to Programmer Productivity
Andrew Dalke reminded me of an essay by Stephen J. Gould (discussed at:
http://www.michaelshermer.com/1996/10/bicycles-baseball-bacteria-and-bach/ and http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/1997/01/outspoken.html) about the decreasing deviation in performance as a field matures. Relating it to the old studies on programming productivity …
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