>> 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?
I haven't read it. But the book isn't cited by any of the names in the field, nor does he write papers, so I expect it's just one of the many of fine books that cover a wide variety of topics in software engineering. If he managed to tie those all together into a complete model, then I guess academia somehow overlooked it while it was struggling to find such a model in the 80s. Mark.
