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What have we learned about software engineering?

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Upon closer examination, everything old appears to be new again in the realm of software engineering.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 2
          February 2012
          111 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2076450
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