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@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@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:


Marc