This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...

This paper attempts to distill the large number of individual aphorisms on good software engineering into a small set of basic principles. Seven principles have been determined which form a reasonably independent and complete set. These are: (1) manage using a phased life-cycle plan; (2) perform continuous validation; (3) maintain disciplined product control; (4) use modern programming practice...