Ch 17: No Silver Bullet Refired
Goal is an order of magnitude productivity improvement Few Attacks on the Conceptual Essence of Problems
Motivational Factors can increase Productivity Accidental or environmental factors, no matter how positive, cannot (Herzberg,Mausner, and Sayderman, 1959)
NSB argues that software progress has been largely removal of NEGATIVE factors,
- e.g. backward languages, batch processing with slow turnaround, poor tools , severe memory constraints.
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