The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)
Oh god, this thing's actually getting traction here.<p>Look, there's no moral to this story and very little to glean from it because it's about a situation that's ridiculous on its face. It's written to appeal to cowboy programmers to make them feel better about their prejudices in software development.<p>Can <i>any</i> of you actually relate a real-world case where a 4-month-long team-driven effort produced some code to solve a problem that could be solved by one cowboy in 3 months and 20% as many lines?