Guest editorial. It's time to ask ‘why?’
Douglas T. Ross · Software Practice and Experience · 1971
It's Time to Ask 'Why?'Not too many years ago, when I was still at MIT, the silence of my office was broken by a rather shrill voice that I immediately recognized as belonging to one of my better students.'Mr.Ross, Mr. ROSS', he practically shouted, 'It works.I got it to work.' Now, I knew rather quickly that the 'it' he was referring to was the fairly complex computer programming problem he had chosen to undertake as a major term assignment.Giving him one of the best professorial looks I could manage, I said to him, 'That's really good news, Martin.Now go back and find out why it works.And then come back and tell me why it's important