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Thirty years ago software development was widely seen as consisting only of programming. And this was regarded more as an art than a science (and certainly not as an engineering discipline). Perhaps that’s why this period is associated with so many gloomy tales of project failure (Brooks, 1975). The industry matured. Along the way we had new languages, real design methods, and, in 1968, the distinction between computer science and software engineering.
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Cooling, J.E. (1991). Real-time systems — setting the scene. In: Software Design for Real-time Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2957-0_1
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