Re: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering

Clinging to sanity, jcoffin_at_taeus.com (Jerry Coffin) mumbled into her beard:
> A few might qualify as crossovers as well: just for example, Lion's
> book or almost any of Tannenbaum's books could be used for studying
> SE, with operating sytsems as the example code. Likewise, the Dragon
> Book could be used as a study in SE with compilers as the sample
> code.

There's a bit of a problem with that; when SE's are expected to build systems that involve database usage, and they _don't_ have any guidance as to why databases should be used one way or another, it's pretty likely that they will re-invent the same _broken_ wheels that others have repetitively invented over the years...

Substitute

  s/database/compiler/g
  s/database/linker/g
  s/database/markup language/g

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