Somewhere around 1985, I introduced Ralph Johnson to a bigwig in the Motorola software research division. Object-oriented programming was around the beginning of its first hype phase, Smalltalk was the canonical example, and Ralph was heavily into Smalltalk, so I expected a good meeting. The bigwig started by explaining how a team of his had [...]

It’s quite the rage today to talk about “delivering value” as opposed to “delivering software”. That scares me.Consider the contractor who had our house in chaos for what seems like forever. We now have more counter space in the two upstairs bathrooms. I think you could make a strong argument that he would have delivered [...]