[TUHS] Re: Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

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On 2024-07-04 16:34, Nevin Liber wrote (in part):
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 3:24 AM Vincenzo Nicosia <katolaz@freaknet.org 
> <mailto:katolaz@freaknet.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I agree my view is cynical. Maybe that's because I cannot find anything
>     romantic or poetic in "financing, regulatory constraints, product
>     schedules, commitments, staffing issues, and everything else that isn't
>     coding". 
> 
> 
> Real Artists Ship: https://folklore.org/Real_Artists_Ship.html 
> <https://folklore.org/Real_Artists_Ship.html>
> 
> How would you have ever seen Unix had it not been for financing 
> (engineers, even passionate ones, kind of like to eat and have a roof 
> over their heads)?  Without regulatory constraints (while not perfect), 
> applying Unix to anything that is safety critical (lives directly on the 
> line) would be a disaster.  I can make a similar statement for every 
> single thing in that list which isn't coding.

In full agreement.  Having worked at startups, engineers often do all of 
these other tasks and know their importance.

Though not full case studies, chapter 5 of "Evidence based software 
engineering" by Derek Jones has interesting project cases.

S.