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Half a Century of Programming and Not Much Progress by John Barnes is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Half a Century of Programming and Not Much Progress about?
## Abstract This paper presents a somewhat gloomy view of the progress of mankind in devising programming languages during the past half century. The paper is in two parts. This first part presents two overall themes. The first theme concerns the use of best practice in reducing risk and possible legal liability in the face of disasters arising from malfunctioning software. **JOHN BARNES'** paper asserts that little is known about what constitutes best practice and that what is known is not used in constructing the vast majority of software anyway. The second theme concerns the evolutionary use of abstraction in controlling complexity and its underlying flavour in the progress that has been made. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Author
- John Barnes
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley (ISSN 1529-7942)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)