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Not to rain on everybody’s parade, but there are three important ideas from computer science which are, frankly, wrong, and people are starting to notice. Ignore them at your peril.
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Spolsky, J. (2004). Three Wrong Ideas from Computer Science. In: Joel on Software. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5_17
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