From the Front Lines Software Development Amidst the Whiz of Silver Bullets.
The author views with skepticism the proliferation of technological advances in software development that are often assumed to have implicit value in themselves. From object orientation to high-level software languages to integrated development environments, such "silver bullets" have been promoted...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 8; pp. 22 - 25 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2008
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