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Fun Boy Three Were Wrong: it is what you do, not the way that you do it

Human-Computer Interaction 2008-03-10 v1 Software Engineering

Abstract

I revisit some classic publications on modularity, to show what problems its pioneers wanted to solve. These problems occur with spreadsheets too: to recognise them may help us avoid them.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0802.3476,
  title  = {Fun Boy Three Were Wrong: it is what you do, not the way that you do it},
  author = {Jocelyn Paine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3476},
  year   = {2008}
}

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