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Originally posted by Undertoad
I have nothing to add, I just want to say that Yourden was one of the biggest Y2K doomsayers. He had previously written about the decline and fall of the American programmer in 1992, after which American programming boomed like mad. So I wouldn't exactly follow this guy into a firefight.
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Well, even though some of it runs counter to the thesis of the subject paper, I like DeMarco's "Controlling Software Projects". Yourdon is a bit of a nutcase if you let him write about anything he doesn't really know about. Is there anything he knows about?
Yourdon Press publishes a lot of good books though. Not as manay as Dorset Press though.
To me, the notable thing about the paper is that it provides a formal underpinning to what "programmers have known for a long time", intuitively.