Has Software Development Improved?

earnest_deyoung asks: "Twenty-five years ago Frederick Brooks laid out a vision of the future of software engineering in "No Silver Bullet." At the time he thought improvements in the process of software creation were most likely to come from object-oriented programming, of-the-shelf components, rapid prototyping, and cultivation of truly great designers. I've found postings on /. where people tout all sorts of design tools, from languages like Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk to design aids and processes like UML and eXtreme Programming. I'm in a Computer Science degree program, and I keep wondering what "improvements" over the last quarter century have actually brought progress to the key issue: more quickly and more inexpensively developing software that's more reliable?"

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Re:1975 to 2002 is not 25, it's 27

[Glonoinha]

I think the English word you are abusing is 'your'. You're is a contraction of 'you are', which doesn't jive with the context you used it in.

Good rant though.

Ergonomic keyboards ?

[doru]

Title says it all...