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- From: dm@think.com (dave mankins)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Looking for "A Tale of Two Programmers"
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:44:37 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA (USA)
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- In article <86162@ut-emx.uucp> guccione@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Guccione) writes:
- >
- >I have been looking for a paper for a few years now, and have decided
- >to see if anyone out on the net could help.
- >
- >It was published around 1984-85 and was titled "A Tale of Two
- >Programmers" or something similar. It was a story of two programmers
- >(conicidentally) working on identical projects for two competing
- >comapnies.
-
- NW Rickert, ``The parable of two programmers'', ACM SigSoft SE Notes,
- 10, 16-18, Jan. 1985
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- WD Maurer, TE Barrios, ``The parable of two programmers ---
- continuted/still more'', ACM SigSoft SE Notes,
- 10, 19-22, April 1985
- --
- david mankins (dm@think.com)
- Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself
- transformed into an enormous software defect.
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