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I’m reading Kent McPhee’s paper ‘Design Theory and Software Design’. From the introduction:

The question that was asked in 1968 [at a NATO scientific committee conference] is just as valid now: ‘How can we predictably create better software systems?’

This is a recurring question. But isn’t it backwards? Isn’t the problem rather how to discover which software system would be the best in a particular problem domain, and within a particular budget and timeframe?

The above was posted to my personal weblog on October 21, 2005. My name is Peter Lindberg and I am a thirtysomething software developer and dad living in Stockholm, Sweden. Here, you’ll find posts in English and Swedish about whatever happens to interest me for the moment.

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