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Programmers and Managers - The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States (Paperback, 1977)
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Programmers and Managers - The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States (Paperback, 1977)
Series: Heidelberg Science Library
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Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the
intimate and delicate relationship between control and
communication: that messages intended as commands do not
necessarily differ from those intended simply as facts. Wiener
noted the paradox when the modem computer was hardly more than a
laboratory curiosity. Thirty years later, the same paradox is at
the heart of a severe identity crisis which con fronts computer
programmers. Are they primarily members of "management" acting as
foremen, whose task it is to ensure that orders emanating from
executive suites are faithfully trans lated into comprehensible
messages? Or are they perhaps sim ply engineers preoccupied with
the technical difficulties of relating "software" to "hardware" and
vice versa? Are they aware, furthermore, of the degree to which
their work whether as manager or engineer-routinizes the work of
others and thereby helps shape the structure of social class
relation ships? I doubt that many of us who lived through the first
heady and frantic years of software development-at places like the
RAND and System Development Corporations-ever took time to think
about such questions. The science fiction-like setting of
mysterious machines, blinking lights, and torrents of numbers
served to awe outsiders who could only marvel at the complexity of
it all. We were insiders who constituted a secret society into
which only initiates were welcome. So today I marvel at the
boundless audacity of a rank out sider in writing a book like
Programmers and Managers."
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