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- From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
- Subject: Re: Software Programmers = Auto Workers?
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:02:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.175946.14181@oakhill.sps.mot.com> rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
- >I hope I got the attention of several of you out there in NetLand. There
- >is an interesting article on pg. 91 of the Nov. 16, 1992 issue of
- >"Electronic Engineering Times". It is titled "S/W EEs 'face massive
- >unemployment'".
- >
- >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. He sites the lousy quality control of the software coming out
- >of American software houses, and the excessive development costs that
- >are assoicated with it. He likens the attitude of American software
- >engineers to that of auto workers in the 1970s, that is, egocentric,
- >looking down upon their non-US competition, and unconcerned about the
- >quality of their product or productivity.
- >
- >He sites examples of Sun Microsystems hiring Russian software experts in
- >its latest compiler project as an example, along with the movement of
- >software jobs to sophisticated and cheap "software factories" in the Far
- >East and South America. Already, General Electric and Texas Instruments
- >are tapping overseas talent, due to lower costs, according to the
- >aritcle.
- >
- >Tom Mathes e-mail : rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com
-
- interesting point. specifically japan has been doing research for years on
- the best ways to cheaply and efficiently produce quality software...once
- again they are willing to forgo short-term profits in order to dominate long-
- term. one of my professors is a consultant to NEC and he said within a few
- years these 'software factories' will start churning out high quality code
- and they may well dominate by the year 2000.
-