Re: Revined URL was re: An article about escalating software complexity

From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 05:54:02 MST


Thanks. How did you find it? I couldn't find bloody anything.

Emlyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 3:06 AM
Subject: Revined URL was re: An article about escalating software complexity

> Ummm. Thanks for the link, but are you aware that it expired?:
> (.../TODAYS.TOPSTORY.HTM) has a tendency to do that. I found it at
> http://WWW.LATIMES.COM/business/columns/techcol/20001127/t000113753.html
>
> > Emlyn wrote:
> >
> > http://WWW.LATIMES.COM/BUSINESS/COLUMNS/TECHCOL/TODAYS.TOPSTORY.HTM
> >
> > This is a funny article about the increasing cost of computerisation,
> > and the apparent hopelessness of software developers (it's all our
> > fault, apparently).
> >
> > I really liked this:
> > Jones concludes in his published paper, "There would probably be
> > no software labor shortage if software quality could be brought under
> > full control."
> > Emlyn
> > (There would probably be no money shortage, either, if someone would
> > just hand out lots of money)
>



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