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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Level 5?
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In article <1993Apr23.124759.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov
(Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
>Will someone tell an ignorant physicist where the term "Level 5" comes
>from?
>
>But who is it that invents this standard, and how come
>everyone but me seems to be familiar with it?

The SEI. Software Engineering Institute, a DoD funded part of Carnegie Mellon
University.  You can read about part of it in Ed Yourdon's The Decline and
Fall of the American Programmer (Yourdon Press).

Just passing thru.....

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
