Conference
"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, …
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