Editor's corner About software engineering hype
l The rate of hype of computing software engineering. Claims are made for new software engineering concepts that regularly go well beyond any possibility of reality. The most recent example of this trend is the claims made for object oriented programming-that programmers of the future will regularly build software entirely from previously-built, glued-together reusable objects. In fact, the history of these excessive claims dates back to the structured revolution and before. None of these hyped concepts has ever achieved the claims made for them.