[TUHS] Interview question

Ajay Shah ajayshah at mayin.org
Tue Jan 3 15:32:06 AEST 2023


On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 10:46, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:

> Sadly, I can't remember whose USENIX talk it was, but I recall a software
> maturity scale that went something like this:
> 1 - it works in your office
> 2 - it works in an office down the hall
> 3 - it works for someone you've never met
> 4 - you don't have to explain why you use it
> 5 - you have to explain why you don't use it
>

Perhaps we can introduce a #6 here:

A successful software tool is one that was used to do something undreamed
of by it's author.

  -- S. C. Johnson

-- 
Ajay Shah
ajayshah at mayin.org
http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah
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