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Re:What we actually know about software development, and why... by tybris on Sunday October 25, 2009 @12:57PM (#901745)
Programming is still a craft. If you want to know how it should be done, just look at the masters. Plenty of successful products out there that can serve as an example.

Until we develop actual computer science (rather than calling publicly funded engineering science) that's all we have.

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Re:What we actually know about software development, and why... by colomon on Sunday October 25, 2009 @01:39PM (#901828)
Ummm... you do realize that the slides point out scientific studies of programming with interesting, practical results, yes? And that the author of the slides is a professor of computer science doing more such studies? One of his points in the talk was to call for the professional programmers in the audience to participate in these sorts of studies.
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