Classics in software engineering
by Edward Yourdon · first published 1979
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…submission. FWIW, I've upvoted this, because I really do want to see a balanced discussion about it from an up-to-date viewpoint. It was the Turing Award Lecture in 1972 - it's over 40 years old. Printed in "Classics in Software Engineering" by Yourdon Press, 1979, ISBN 0917072146. HTML: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.... PDF: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF Here are some of the previous submissions…
on “The Humble Programmer (1972)” ↗An old friend. It was the Turing Award Lecture in 1972. Printed in "Classics in Software Engineering" by Yourdon Press, 1979, ISBN 0917072146 Here are some of the previous submissions here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86288 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109724 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126638…
on “The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra” ↗> Printed in "Classics in Software Engineering" by Yourdon Press, 1979 It's interesting how terminology has changed. In the 1970s you might have been able to say that Dijkstra was part of a field called "software engineering", in that he was writing…
on “The Humble Programmer (1972)” ↗