The Disappearance LASZLO Mitsubishi of the Pure Software Industry A. BELADY Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ( belady@merl.tom) Electric To paraphrase Hartmanis, the goal of computer science is to discover the laws of information processing and then to apply them to the optimum design of computer spectrum beyond quite information modifying that hardware of tasks. of numerical processing information and indeed and software that the analysis application systems for the purpose system of performing is now new a broad stretched any useful definition form is and of Notice scope of computation or even is a computation. unless we want only. We by intuition This programming: acceptable necessary, to keep designing need a new engineering. But what is to be engineered? For the that, in addition to the design of computer by engineers, engineering-a emergence The restricted and distribution development last 25 years it has been thought hardware which is obviously done software also must be engineered. This gave rise to software very difficult discipline. And most recently we noted the of the software of packaged industry software. is now very widespread Today most and is no longer prodof software. noncomputer involved in the profitable manufacture of
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