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The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.
Fred Brooks
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Fred Brooks
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: April 19
Computer Scientist
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Durham
North Carolina
Frederick Phillips Brooks
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Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Frederick Phillips Fred Brooks
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