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An interview with Dave Parnas

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A discussion of ideas about software engineering.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 6
      June 2018
      97 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3229066
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