Glad you liked that paragraph, Rik. I had that section head in my outline
and when I got there I had no idea what to type. Got away with it! ;-)
Marc
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 6:40 PM Rik Farrow <rik(a)rikfarrow.com> wrote:
Very nicely written history, as well as explanation of
how systems
differed. I appreciated reading this, but especially enjoyed one of the
closing paragraphs on the future:
How am I supposed to know? AI is already doing some coding. Maybe in ten
or twenty years it will do all of it. Will AI need version control? If it
does, will it be the latest version of Git, or maybe something invented by
AI?
Thanks Marc
Rik
On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was writing
this invited paper for an
upcoming 50-year anniversary of the first issue of IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering.
The paper has now been accepted for publication and here's a preprint
version of it:
https://www.mrochkind.com/mrochkind/docs/SCCSretro2.pdf
Marc