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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement.
The oldest reference on the topic I know of dates back to 1979 in a book by Zelkowitz, Shaw, and Gannon entitled Principles of software engineering and design. If we do talk about how the “figuring out the system” time is spent, we notice that people spend it reading. Glamorous Toolkit is a moldable development environment that makes it possible to create custom tools about software systems inexpensively.
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