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gang bang
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n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to
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wedge a great many features into a product in a short time. Though there
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have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend assembler port
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mentioned in Steven Levy's Hackers ), and large numbers of loosely-coupled
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programmers operating in bazaar mode can do very useful work when they're
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not on a deadline, most are perpetrated by large companies trying to meet
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unrealistic deadlines; the inevitable result is enormous buggy masses of
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code entirely lacking in orthogonal ity. When market-driven managers make a
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list of all the features the competition has and assign one programmer to
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implement each, the probability of maintaining a coherent (or even
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functional) design goes to epsilon. See also firefighting , Mongolian Hordes
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technique , Conway's Law.
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