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Written by Elisabeth Hendrickson on 2025-01-29 at 14:42

Reading Dijkstra's 1972 Turing Award Lecture transcript. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

He says: "If software development were to continue to be the same clumsy and expensive process as it is now, things would get completely out of balance. You cannot expect society to accept this..."

I'm convinced the "software crisis" stemmed from an unrealistic expectation that software should cost less than hardware. Improvements are still important. But the 'crisis' was indeed just the end of an illusion.

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