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From: duncan@dduck.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Request for War Stories
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Date: 6 Aug 90 16:38:56 GMT
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In article <5428@stpstn.UUCP> cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) writes:
>
>          To paraphrase, a silver bullet does exist, but it is *not* a 
>technology. It is a paradigm shift; replacement of today's process-centered 
>model with a product-centered model; centering on a marketplace in
>interchangeable software components instead of as today, on languages
>and methodologies.

Are you are suggesting that concern for the development process disappears with
interchangeable components?  What of the process by which those components
come into being.  Is there no requirements or design process associated with
development under the paradigm you offer?

I'm not sure how extensively you are using the word process since I do not
see it as exclusively the province of creation of code.  Even then, I expect
creators of software from interchangeable components will follow SOME process
in order to combine the components.

Can you explain a bit more about how you are using the term "process"?

>Brad Cox; cox@stepstone.com; CI$ 71230,647; 203 426 1875
>The Stepstone Corporation; 75 Glen Road; Sandy Hook CT 06482

Speaking only for myself, of course, I am...
Scott P. Duncan (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan)
                (Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane  RRC 1H-210, Piscataway, NJ  08854)
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