Download or read book Decline & Fall of the American Programmer written by Edward Yourdon and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Edward Yourdon, software development may soon move out of the U.S. into software factories in a dozen countries unless U.S. software organizations exploit the key software technologies examined in this new publication. Here Mr. Yourdon takes a close look at how U.S. companies can implement object oriented methods, CASE tools, software quality assurance, structured methods, software metrics, and re-engineering. For U.S. programmers, analysts, software engineers, and software development managers.