By Edsger W. Dijkstra. This short 1968 paper is widely considered the seminal work which began the Structured Programming movement, and is vital to grasp the motives of its creators. Reprinted as an ACM Classic of the Month.
This study found that the use of a computer conferencing system in a research and development lab was significantly shaped by a set of intervening actors, "mediators", who actively guided and manipulated the technology and its use over time.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) publishes papers on all aspects of that challenge: specification, design, development and maintenance. It covers tools and methodologies, languages, data structures, and algorithms. TOSE...