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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 2: NO MOAT IN BLOAT Reliability Beats Brilliance

"Bill Curtis presented an alternate dataset in 1981 that substantiated very large variability in programmer performance."

Curtis explicitly responded to criticism of the earlier Sackman work and concluded that an alternate dataset still showed enormous variation between programmers.

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Source title Substantiating programmer variability
Source authors Bill Curtis
Source year 1981
Confidence high
Importance high
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