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From: mfinney@lynchburg.net
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/15
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In <gio+van+no+ni+8-0309982225160001@dialup62.tlh.talstar.com>, gio+van+no+ni+8@tal+star+spam.com (Giovanni 8) writes:

>"[T]he air force estimates that it will require 25% of the
> country's entire 18-25 year old population to maintain all
> its software systems by the year 2000.  [H]igh-quality
> software is difficult to develop... most software efforts
> of any magnitude are fraught with problems & failures &
> that software projects usually take longer to complete &
> cost more than planned." --- Carma McClure 1992
> _The 3 Rs of Software Automation_ pg 5 (citing Eric Bush
> 1988 "A CASE for Existing Systems" _Language Technology
> White Paper_ pg 27)

Clearly the only solution is to abolish the air force! <g>


Michael Lee Finney