TY - BOOK AU - Parikh, Girish TI - Programmer productivity: achieving an urgent priority SN - 0835956504 U1 - 001.64 P3p 1984 PY - 1984/// CY - Reston , Virginia PB - Reston Publishing Company KW - Programming N1 - Includes bibliography and indexes N2 - "Programmer productivity is one of the key issues of the data processing industry in the 1980s. For instance, James Martin, at one of his famous five-day lectures, warned: "Most of the U.S. workforce will be needed as programmers by the end of the decade if programmer productivity is not increased." It is becoming more critical as hardware costs are skyrocketing. The main purpose of this book is to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the crucial areas of software development and maintenance by increasing programmer productivity." ER -