Nurturing Software.
The article discusses the development of computer software. Software is nurtured and cultivated in several different environments from universities to firms. In each environment software is nurtured differently, which in turn influence the final features of software. This simple observation has impo...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 9; pp. 80 - 86 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Sep2005
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