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From: bglenden@mandrill.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning)
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Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
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Date: 21 Nov 90 19:30:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk's message of 8 Nov 90 16:39:39 GMT

In article <PCG.90Nov8163939@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
   This discussion reminds me of Dijkstra's famous address in 1968 to some
   (the IFIP?)  conference, on the software crisis, that went like this:

     We have a software crisis, and we are told that we must advance the
     state of the art so as to solve it. We are only given a few constraints
     to satisfy:

	     no changes to the hardware platforms
	     no changes to the languages
	     no changes to the operating systems 
	     no changes to the education of programmers
	     no changes to the software tools
	     no changes to organizational practices
	     ...

     Well, this is RIDICULOUS!

Does anyone have the correct reference for this (or even the actual
text?) Thanks!

Brian
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