Planning the Software Industrial Revolution

  • Authors:
  • Brad J. Cox

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

The author traces the US history of invention and technology transfer from the 1700s to the present and asks whether software development can stop being a process-centered cottage industry by the application of interchangeable parts technology. He maintains that a revolution is needed to accomplish this and outlines the steps of such a revolution. The author clarifies the meaning of object oriented, discusses the value rigidity trap, and provides a commercial example of the approach that he advocates.