Planning the software industrial revolution

1 November 1990

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Software

Vol. 7 (6) , 25-33
https://doi.org/10.1109/52.60587

Abstract

The author traces the US history of invention and technology transfer from the 1700s to the present and asks whether software development can stop being a process-centered cottage industry by the application of interchangeable parts technology. He maintains that a revolution is needed to accomplish this and outlines the steps of such a revolution. The author clarifies the meaning of object oriented, discusses the value rigidity trap, and provides a commercial example of the approach that he advocates.

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