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Discussion on: Which fictional story (book, movie, etc.) is the best allegory for software development?

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Dan Conn

The Blob.

From Wikipedia... "The storyline concerns a growing, corrosive, alien amoeboidal entity that crashes to Earth from outer space inside a meteorite. It devours and dissolves citizens in the small communities of Phoenixville and Downingtown, PA, growing larger, redder, and more aggressive each time it does so, eventually becoming larger than a building."

If that doesn't describe legacy code (where the citizens are developers working on it) then I don't know what else will!