We Really Don't Know Jack About Maintenance

davecb writes "The ACM has been kind enough to print Paul Stachour's and my 'jack' article about Software Maintenance. Paul first pointed out back in 1984 that we and our managers were being foolish mdash; when we were still running Unix V7 mdash; and if anything it's been getting worse. Turns out maintenance has been a 'solved problem in computer science' since at least then, and we're just beginning to rediscover it."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/17/005210/We-Really-Dont-Know-Jack-About-Maintenance?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/17/005210"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/17/005210/We-Really-Dont-Know-Jack-About-Maintenance?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fFTpKilCW-Xpj49xrhLyzmdzRVc/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fFTpKilCW-Xpj49xrhLyzmdzRVc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fFTpKilCW-Xpj49xrhLyzmdzRVc/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fFTpKilCW-Xpj49xrhLyzmdzRVc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/m7Sm82K7rSc" height="1" width="1"/

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