Peter Miller (software engineer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian software developer
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Place of Birth: Ramsgate, New South Wales, Australia
About Peter Miller (software engineer)
- Peter Miller (16 October 1960 – 27 July 2014) was an Australian software developer who wrote Recursive Make Considered Harmful and created Aegis and cook.
- He also discovered the laws of modern software engineering and architecture in the early 1990s (before others rediscovered them in the late 1990s): Miller's laws are: 1.
- 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. 2.
- The baseline MUST always be in working order. 3.
- The software build/construction process can be reduced to a directed, acyclical graph (DAG). 4.
- It is necessary to build a rigid framework of selected components (aka the top level aegis design). 5.
- 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. 6.
- The framework should use the Strategy pattern for most complex tasks.
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