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"No silver bullet" reloaded

Abstract

Twenty years after the paper No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks first appeared in IEEE Computer in April 1987 (following its 1986 publication in Information Processing, ISBN 0444-7077-3) does the premise hold that the complexity of software is not accidental? How have the "hopes for silver" which included high-level language advances, object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, expert systems, great designers, etc. - evolved? Panelists will discuss what has changed and/or stayed the same in the past twenty years - and the paper's influence on the community.

Authors

Fraser SD; Brooks FP; Fowler M; Lopez R; Namioka A; Northrop L; Parnas DL; Thomas D

Pagination

pp. 1026-1030

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Publication Date

October 20, 2007

DOI

10.1145/1297846.1297973

Name of conference

Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion
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