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Mediocre people with good tools and languages willstill develop mediocre systems, but good people,even when burdened with poor tools and mediocrelanguages, can turn out damn good software.
—Ed Yourdon [1992]
You’ve Got a Problem
You have recently been assigned to a new project. This is a large information technology (IT) project in a utility that recently went public. It will serve as the pathfinder for future system developments. The system, illustrated in Figure 6.1, is being developed to allow users to access information of interest from different hosts across wideband communications ...
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