Peter Miller (software engineer)
Peter Miller (16 October 1960 – 27 July 2014) was an Australian software developer who wrote Recursive Make Considered Harmful[1][2] and created Aegis and cook. He also proposed a set of "laws" for modern software engineering and architecture in the early 1990s:
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Miller in October 2011 | |
Born | Peter Alexander Miller 16 October 1960 |
Died | 27 July 2014 53) | (aged
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Software Engineer |
Spouse(s) | Mary Therese Miller (nee Lynch) (married 198?-2014) |
Children | Rowan Miller (1989-present) |
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Miller's laws are:
- The number of interactions within a development team is O(n!) without controlled access to the baseline. If the development team does have controlled access to the baseline, interactions can be reduced to near O(n), where n is the number of developers and/or files in the source tree, whichever is larger.
- The baseline MUST always be in working order.
- The software build/construction process can be reduced to a directed, acyclical graph (DAG).
- It is necessary to build a rigid framework of selected components (aka the top level aegis design).
- The framework should not do any real work, and should instead delegate everything to external components. The external components should be as interchangeable as possible.
- The framework should use the Strategy pattern for most complex tasks.
References
- Graham-Cumming, John (15 July 2005). "Recursive make Reloaded". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?es_sm=119&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.&bvm=bv.93564037,d.dGc&biw=1280&bih=678&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=14823016308468608480
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