[TUHS] A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System

[Marc Rochkind]

Glad you liked that paragraph, Rik. I had that section head in my outline
and when I got there I had no idea what to type. Got away with it! ;-)

Marc

On Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 6:40 PM Rik Farrow <rik at rikfarrow.com> wrote:

> Very nicely written history, as well as explanation of how systems
> differed. I appreciated reading this, but especially enjoyed one of the
> closing paragraphs on the future:
>
> How am I supposed to know? AI is already doing some coding. Maybe in ten
> or twenty years it will do all of it. Will AI need version control? If it
> does, will it be the latest version of Git, or maybe something invented by
> AI?
>
> Thanks Marc
> Rik
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM Marc Rochkind <mrochkind at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was writing this invited paper for an
>> upcoming 50-year anniversary of the first issue of IEEE Transactions on
>> Software Engineering.
>>
>> The paper has now been accepted for publication and here's a preprint
>> version of it:
>>
>> https://www.mrochkind.com/mrochkind/docs/SCCSretro2.pdf
>>
>> Marc
>>
>
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