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- From: gwilson@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Gregory Vance Wilson)
- Subject: Re: SCM Wishlist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.192923.3398@cs.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:29:23 GMT
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- In article <74521@cup.portal.com> Chewy@cup.portal.com (Paul Frederick Snively) writes:
- >gwilson@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Gregory Vance Wilson) writes:
- >> > jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer) writes:
- >> > Some things which could be added to SCM are:
- >>
- >> Some other things that might speed its adoption by the rest of us:
- >>
- >> * a textbook on software engineering which uses Scheme as a
- >> language for its examples
- >
- >Probably the single best software engineering textbook extant uses
- >Scheme as its delivery vehicle: `Structure and Interpretation of
- >Computer Programs,` from The MIT Press.
-
- I'm afraid I disagree --- SICP is a wonderful book about how to program, and
- think about programs, but it isn't really about managing program development
- (which is what I mean by "software engineering"). It's been a while since I
- read it, so forgive me if I'm off base, but I don't recall any discussion of
- planning program development, managing revision control, developing test
- suites and schedules, black box vs. glass box testing, negotiating and
- validating interfaces, etc. If there is a book about such things which uses
- Scheme as its core language, I'd be very grateful for a pointer to it.
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- Gregory V. Wilson || Work as though you lived
- Dept. of Computing and Information Science || in the early days
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- gwilson@cs.uoregon.edu || - Alasdair Gray
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