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Book Review
Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer by Edward Yourdon
Recommended
ISBN: 0-13-121831-X)       Publisher: Prentice Hall       Pages: 318pp       Price: £12-50
Categories:   technology    
Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 8-5 (Jul 1996)
This book is a sequel to the author's 1992 book 'Decline and Fall of the American Programmer.' That book took a detailed look as to why the American software industry was in such a mess and seemed unable to compete with the burgeoning software shops of the Asia and the Pacific Rim countries. Now four years on he is in a more optimistic mood seeing potential in many of the new developments. Though most readers of C VU are not American, much of our software industry suffers from similar problems. Once UK programmers led the World and now we seem to be destroying any resurgence by exporting our software projects to Asia. Perhaps we in the UK are at the 'Decline and Fall' stage.

If you want to stand back and take a look at a broader view of the software industry this book is well worth your attention. Not being a programming book seems to have seriously affected the dollar/pound exchange rate. The cost of books like this one show what is possible if publishers set their minds to it.

Other Authors with the same surname

Yourdon
Case Studies in Object Orientated Analysis and Design by Carl Argila & Edward Yourdon [Highly Recommended]  (Reviewed May 1998)
Death March Projects by Edward Yourdon [Recommended]  (Reviewed Jan 1999)
Object Oriented Analysis, (Second Edition) by Peter Coad & Edward Yourdon [Recommended]  (Reviewed Feb 1994)
Object-Oriented Analysis (Second Edition) by Peter Coad & Edward Yourdon [Not Recommended]  (Reviewed May 1993)
Object-Oriented Design by Peter Coad & Edward Yourdon [Not Recommended]  (Reviewed May 1993)
Time Bomb 2000 by Edward Yourdon & Jennifer Yourdon [Recommended]  (Reviewed May 1998)

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