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"No silver bullet" reloaded: retrospective on "essence and accidents of software engineering"

Published: 20 October 2007 Publication History

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Twenty years after the paper No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks first appeared in IEEE Computer in April 1987 (following its 1986 publication in Information Processing, ISBN 0444-7077-3) does the premise hold that the complexity of software is not accidental? How have the "hopes for silver" which included high-level language advances, object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, expert systems, great designers, etc. - evolved? Panelists will discuss what has changed and/or stayed the same in the past twenty years - and the paper's influence on the community.

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OOPSLA '07: Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion
October 2007
241 pages
ISBN:9781595938657
DOI:10.1145/1297846
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  3. silver bullet
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