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Subject: Re: Comments on book review
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 23:59:03 EDT
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>If you built a house the way some of you seem to think you should build
>a program, we'd be in trouble. The software sevelopment cycle is more
>that just a textbook approach. It is a reality in the commercial world
>of industrial-strength business software.
If "a house" were no better defined than some of the problems for which we
build software, it wouldn't be built the way it is.  "Building a house" is
not a problem at the state-of-the-art.
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