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At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly:
> 1. The functional spec, written by my manager was worth less than used 
> toilet paper. 
> 2. They had not even decided what flavor of Unix they were going to use at 
> the start of the project. 
> 3. Out of the 4 Unix engineers hired, only one was an experience C 
> progammer. A second had some better design experience, but was a bit weak. 

Jerry, it sounds a lot like you're describing the difference between
good planning and poor planning, and not so much an implementation
failure.  It seems logical that with poor planning, such a strategy
can't work.  Poor planning is rarely much better than NO planning,
in my experience, and occasionally it can actually be worse.

Right from the start you were doomed to fail, because your functional
spec was useless.  Software engineering design principles depend upon
having a well-stated (and well-understood) functional specification...

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