How to Commit Suicide by Software Engineering, and how not to

Prologue: How I fell in love

It was 1977, and I was 11 years old at the time. The planet was still in a head-spin over a rash of new electronic inventions such as calculators (TI started manufacturing them in 1966) and the world’s first video game, Pong, released in 1972. Up until then, computers had been the stuff of scientists and…