Cautionary Tales on Implementing the Software That People Want

(Paul McKenney) "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it."
I have been developing software for almost 50 years and supporting myself doing so for more than 45 of those years. Although I do occasionally code up something just for fun, the vast majority of the software that I have written has been requested (and paid for) by others. In other words, I have spent most of my career writing software that other people asked for.
As many have observed, it is hard enough to write software that runs correctly, but even harder to work out the correct software to write. This talk will tell the tale of a few of my attempts to correctly write the correct software.
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Tue Mar 14 10:45:00 2023 at Clarendon Auditorium