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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Software Programmers = Auto Workers?
- Message-ID: <13865@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:48:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.175946.14181@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Sender: news@texsun.Central.Sun.COM
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- >The article discusses a new book called "The Decline and Fall if the
- >American Programmer", by Edward Yourdan (Prentice-Hall, Englewood
- >Cliffs, NJ). Mr. Yourdon groups data processors, software people and
- >systems analysts in this group, and he claims that the American software
- >industry will go the way of the US auto industry if present trends
- >continue.
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- Mr. Yourdon wasn't by any chance putting forward the use of his
- own methodology as a productivity aid, was he?
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