the usual way to get a large computer application developedinvolves a big team the people
working in close coordination most the time this works surprisingly well but it does have its problems and large projects tend to get done poorly they take a long time they consume an astonishing amount of moneyand in many cases the individual team members are dissatisfied so everybody in the computing business is constantly searching for ways
to do a better job of developing computer applications there aren't likely to be any final answers both because the problems are hard in because as we find solutions we try even more ambitious objectives but there are some things that can be done to make life easier for everybody on large programming project a good programming environment helps a lot
1:13and in the next few minutes we're going to show you some other properties
1:18the UNIX operating system that make it a good programming environment