Vorlath takes hundreds of words to not understand something very, very basic - in software development, even the best advances are stymied by human factors. Mediocre developers trump technology; bad management trumps good developers; changing market conditions can kill good software. What he tries to do is "prove" that Brooks was wrong - all the while failing to understand what Brooks was actually getting at:

This topic still comes up today even though people should know better. I will discuss the topics in the No Silver Bullet paper and point out why they are incorrect. Only minimal critical thinking is required. My annoyance is simply how pervasive this paper has become and how people believe it without analysing what is actually said.

Most of us know perfectly well what Brooks was saying - and it didn't really involve formal logic.

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