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the main point here is software that will be installed and used by thousands or millions of people.
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Some games are hits, many more games are failures, and if you want to make money on game software you recognize this and make sure that you have a portfolio of games so that the blockbuster hit makes up for the losses on the failures.
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Craig RettigIn fact there are several different worlds of software development, and different rules apply to different worlds.
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infrared"You're a software developer. Me too. But we may not have the same goals and requirements. In fact there are several different worlds of software development, and different rules apply to different worlds."
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Triple EntendreJoel makes the startlingly salient point that there are different kinds of software, and each requires different sorts of work to produce.
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Whenever you read one of those books about programming methodologies written by a full time software development guru/consultant, you can rest assured that they are talking about internal, corporate software development. Not shrinkwrapped software, not embedded software, and certainly not games.
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