9th
March
2007
Code Read 7 - David Parnas on Star Wars Software
In 1985, David Parnas resigned from his position on a panel convened by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, which was overseeing the “Star Wars”, or SDI anti-ballistic missile defense program. Along with his resignation he submitted several short essays explaining why he thought the software required for Star Wars could not be built, at that time or in the foreseeable future. Those essays were later collected and published, and are the subject of Code Read 7.
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