Publication date 1996 ISBN 978-0-13-956160-3 LC Class QA76.6 .Y6682 1998 Country United States of America | Media type Print Dewey Decimal 005.1 21 Originally published 1996 Publisher Prentice Hall OCLC 37457822 | |
Preceded by Decline and Fall of the American Programmer Similar Decline and Fall of the Ameri, Case studies in object‑ori, Time Bomb 2000, Managing high‑intensity Internet p, Object‑oriented Design | ||
Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1996. It is the sequel to Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. In the original, written at the beginning of the '90s, Yourdon warned American programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign competition. By the middle of the decade Microsoft had released Windows 95, which marked a groundbreaking new direction for the operating system, the internet was beginning to rise as a serious consumer marketplace, and the Java software platform had made its first public release in the same year (1995).
Contents
- Part One Decline Fall Reexamined
- Part Two Repaving Cowpaths
- Part Three The Brave New World
- Appendix An Updated Programmers Bookshelf
- References
Due to such large changes in the state of the software industry, Yourdon reversed some of his original predictions. Notably absent from the book is any significant consideration of the open source software movement, particularly the development of the Linux kernel and the GNU operating system, which would come to have increasing significance in the coming decade in shaping the software industry. Both the internet, Microsoft's business strategy, and Java, which all feature significantly in Yourdon's thesis, would come to be heavily influenced by this phenomenon.