[SPG_Active_Members] Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over" MIT Press 2010

[Paul McJones]

  Dear Richard,

I assume you are referring to the fact he used "principle" where he 
meant "principal".  Is it possible he made an honest mistake?

In any case, I agree with Al that it sounds like an interesting book and 
Ensmenger would likely be an interesting CHM speaker.


Paul


On 9/1/10 10:20 PM, Richard P. Gabriel wrote:
> At 17:27 -0700 9/1/10, Al Kossow wrote:
>> FINALLY someone has published a book that clearly explains that 
>> "Software"
>> is more than programming, and that the history of software is more than
>> "heroic programmers" and programs created by computer manufacturers.
>>
>> I hope we have the chance to have Prof. Ensmenger give a CHM evening 
>> talk
>> some time.
>
> I hope his book is a bit more literate than his own description of it 
> on his website where he says:
>
> "And yet very little is known about its principle revolutionaries, the 
> computer programmers, systems analysts, and other technical experts 
> who made possible the computerization of modern society."
>
> MIT Press is not known for providing copyeditors - or at least it 
> wasn't in the past.
>
>             -rpg-
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