In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warned American
programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign competition. By the middle of the decade
Microsoft had released
Windows 95, which marked a groundbreaking new direction for the
operating system, the
internet was beginning to rise as a serious consumer marketplace, and the
Java software platform had made its first public release. Due to such large changes in the state of the software industry, Yourdon reversed some of his original predictions. == References ==