Knowing the notion of sufficient completeness and the theory of abstract data types helps practitioners produce better requirements.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | November 26, 2019 at 12:01 PM
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
“Break through!” clamor the funding agencies, which scorn “incremental” research. Sure, every human being needs hype; in truth, though, almost all research—good...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | June 13, 2011 at 02:46 AM
There is one proven way to improve the state of software, following the the airline industry's spectacular improvements of safety. The IT industry ignores it. Why...Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | January 13, 2011 at 01:53 PM
Watts Humphrey left us a few weeks ago. His contributions to professional software engineering have been essential.Bertrand Meyer From BLOG@CACM | November 15, 2010 at 03:27 PM
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
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