23 June 2006
Improbable reconciliations
Improbable reconciliations Also on the bus is author Barry Boehm, whose Software Engineering Economics (1980) led the way to the industrialisation of programming in the 1980s and 90s. Originally an enthusiastic convert to formal methods, I eventually became disenchanted with what software development was turning into, and left the field for 15 years. I used to enjoy casting Boehm as a villain in this story, but without his work I should never have been able to bring back to programming whatever I have learned from philosophy, sales and psychology. Good and bad; is it ever time to judge? I was enchanted at dinner to discover that Boehm remembers studying under Ken Iverson at Harvard.
Santa says hej.
Posted by SJT at June 23, 2006 07:00 PMComments
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