Often, "we do this and then we do that" is just a lazy way of stating "to do that, we must have achieved this."Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | December 6, 2022 at 04:24 AM
Often, you will be told programming languages do not matter much. It is a pretty general rule that people arguing language does not matter are simply trying...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | April 15, 2014 at 08:58 PM
ESEC-FSE 2013 (in Saint Petersburg,, 18-26 August) is the place to be for software engineering in 2013.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | January 22, 2013 at 09:15 AM
The contributions and personality of John McCarthy, one of the pioneers of computer science.
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 28, 2011 at 09:57 AM
There is a simple way to make refereeing better, almost overnight. It takes a bit of courage, but it would restore honesty and quality to the process.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 20, 2010 at 09:21 PM
One obstacle is hampering the progress of empirical software engineering: we are still missing a culture of reproducibility
Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 27, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Empirical software engineering papers, at places like the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), used to be terrible. There were exceptions, of...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | October 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM