2008/11/7 Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Eh? You've but the strawman up, I'm just here with the torches. > > 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". What would you say Sommerville's "Software Engineering" does then? Steve > > 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. >
