Mob Software →

Because of the apparent need to constantly innovate—or obsolete—hardware and to renew ourselves creatively, and because development has been done primarily in a landscape riddled by many isolated islands of similar or identical activities, we have, over the last 40–50 years, written the same code over and over. How many versions of Unix do we need? Do we really need the few dozen that we have? How about a text editor more advanced than Emacs? Are Word, Excel, and Powerpoint really the best possible programs in those categories? We’ve built these programs many times, and we don’t get particularly better at them.