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NATO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE 1968
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»There is tremendous difference if maintenance means adaptation to a changing problem, or just correcting blunders. It was the first kind of maintenance I was talking about. You may be right in blaming users for asking for blue-sky equipment, but if the manufacturing community offers this with a serious face, then I can only say that the whole business is based on one big fraud. [Laughter and applause]«.
For use in the report the source texts, and some additional transcribed material, have been sorted out according to the subject classification developed during the conference. Whenever possible the material in the working papers has been integrated into Sections 3 to 7 of the report. However, in some cases it has been found more convenient to place the working material in Section 9, and merely to make the appropriate references in the main sections of the report.
To avoid misinterpretations of the report it must be kept in mind that the participants at the conference were acting as individuals, and in no sense as representatives of the organizations with which they are affiliated.
In order to retain the spirit and liveliness of the conference, every attempt has been made to reproduce the points made during the discussion by using the original wording. This means that points of major disagreement have been left wide open, and that no attempt has been made to arrive at a consensus or majority view. This is also the reason why the names of participants have been given throughout the report.
The actual work on the report was a joint undertaking by several people. The large amounts of typing and other office chores, both during the conference and for a period thereafter, were done by Miss Doris Angermeyer, Miss Enid Austin, Miss Petra Dandler, Mrs Dagmar Hanisch, and Miss Erika Stief. During the conference notes were taken by Larry Flanigan, Ian Hugo and Manfred Paul. Ian Hugo also operated the tape recorder. The reviewing and sorting of the passages from the written contributions and the discussions was done by Larry Flanigan, Bernard Galler, David Gries, Ian Hugo, Peter Naur, Brian Randell and Gerd Sapper. The final write-up was  done by Peter Naur and Brian Randell, assisted by Ian Hugo. The preparation of the final typed copy of the report was done by Miss Kirsten Andersen at Regnecentralen, Copenhagen, under the direction of Peter Naur,
Peter Naur
Brian Randell