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Michael A. Jackson Quotes

born 1936

Michael A. Jackson (born 16 February 1936) is an independent computing consultant in London, England.

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After forty years of currency the phrase "software engineering" still denotes no more then a vague and largely unfulfilled aspiration.

We follow two rules in the matter of optimization

A development method may be regarded as a path or a procedure by which the developer proceeds from a problem of a certain class to a solution of a certain class. In trivial cases, the method may be fully algorithmic; for example, there is an algorithmic procedure for obtaining the square root of a nonnegative number to any desired degree of accuracy.

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