So, Im to be marooned on a desert island with a handful of books relating to software engineering? I have two immediate, conflicting, reactions. One is to complete the punchline to a music-hall joke: "Second prize, marooned with two handfuls of software engineering books". The other is to think, I take a handful of books on a short train journey, because Im terrified of being caught without reading material: how will I last on the island? This wins over the joke, and I start to compose my list.
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@article(SS-ASE-05, author = "Susan Stepney", title = "Desert Island Column", journal = "Automated Software Engineering", volume = 12, number = 1, pages = "139-141", year = 2005 )