On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perry and Wolfe did not create from new software architecture with > their paper, they documented the learnt best practices of the previous > 40 years and put together a nice structure in which others could then > build. They created a separation from "design" to the early stage > processes which then became architecture, but people were doing this > for umpteen years before hand in successful projects.
Steve, you seem to have a knack for creating strawmen. It is a given that Perry and Wolf built upon decades of work. They wouldn't be scientists if they didn't. You can check the references in their papers, as well as the references of those references if you want to study the history, and of course it would track back to the likes of Djikstra, Parnas, Brooks, Shaw, and all the other pioneers of the field. But before their first paper, there was no single, complete, coherent model for designing software systems. So that is why I chose to say "20". Lemme guess, in RCA vs. Armstrong[1], you'd be arguing RCA's case, right? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong#FM_radio Mark.
