Ed -  (01)
On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ed Barkmeyer wrote:  (02)
> [EB] good science owes much to the peer review process.  (03)
(At the risk of perhaps repeating myself...)  (04)
Twenty years ago I was poking around the (MIT) Sloan School's library 
for materials relevant to information management issues.  (05)
To my delight & astonishment I found a research paper on "software 
maintenance."  (06)
Unfortunately when I got the paper the full abstract said that while 
the original intent was to discuss software maintenance issues, when 
they examined the academically acceptable refereed literature, there 
were in fact so few articles on the topic that the paper was actually 
going to examine how object oriented programming would significantly 
reduce/eliminate the need for software maintenance.  (07)
To me this smacks of: "Because my eyes can only see visible light, 
this is proof that radio waves do not exist. QED"  (08)
Let me see... object oriented programming (or modular programming if 
you're from the other side of the pond) is 50+ years old. Therefore 
we clearly have no software maintenance challenges now?  (09)
Did I miss something?  (010)
- David  (011)
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