Malcolm McIlroy quotes/Top and Bottom

Top and Bottom

“Talking about where one starts is, I think, perhaps a slight lie. One starts in fact with the grand conception, including the top and the bottom.”

• Source: Malcolm Douglas McIlroy in a report entitled Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee. Chaired by Friedrich Ludwig Bauer. Edited by P. Naur; B. Randell. Conference held 1968-10-07 through 1968-10-11 in Garmisch, Germany. OCLC: 35337842. See http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/index.html ; http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF ; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1102020 ; https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_engineering.html?id=Uc9QAAAAYAAJ . Page 29.

• See Also:
  • Malcolm_McIlroy_quotes
  • Malcolm_McIlroy_quotes/Top_and_Bottom

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