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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>gang bang</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="G.html" title="G"/><link rel="next" href="Gang-of-Four.html" title="Gang of Four"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">gang bang</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="G.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Gang-of-Four.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="gang-bang"/><dt xmlns="" id="gang-bang"><b>gang bang</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an
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attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
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Though there have been memorable gang bangs (e.g., that over-the-weekend
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assembler port mentioned in Steven Levy's <i class="citetitle">Hackers</i>),
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and large numbers of loosely-coupled programmers operating in
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<a href="../B/bazaar.html"><i class="glossterm">bazaar</i></a> mode can do very useful work when they're not
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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 <a href="../O/orthogonal.html"><i class="glossterm">orthogonal</i></a>ity. When
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market-driven managers make a list of all the features the competition has
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and assign one programmer to implement each, the probability of maintaining
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a coherent (or even functional) design goes to
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<a href="../E/epsilon.html"><i class="glossterm">epsilon</i></a>. See also
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<a href="../F/firefighting.html"><i class="glossterm">firefighting</i></a>,
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<a href="../M/Mongolian-Hordes-technique.html"><i class="glossterm">Mongolian Hordes technique</i></a>, <a href="../C/Conways-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Conway's Law</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="G.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Gang-of-Four.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">G </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Gang of Four</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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