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This paper is a contribution of a special kind: rather than describing one specific result, I will attempt to give a synopsis of an ongoing controversy between rivalling ideas and attitudes underlying our scientific and technical work in software engineering. In doing so, I will argue for a shift of emphasis which I term a paradigm change. This change seems urgent in a situation where software as part of computer-based systems affects even more areas of the living human world, while the existing discipline of software engineering has no way of dealing with this systematically.
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Floyd, C. (1993). Outline of a Paradigm Change in Software Engineering. In: Colburn, T.R., Fetzer, J.H., Rankin, T.L. (eds) Program Verification. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1793-7_11
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