The 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference in Garmisch was a major turning point in the open recognition of the software crisis.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Post-Industrial Craft

"The 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference in Garmisch was a major turning point in the open recognition of the software crisis."

Dijkstra later described the Garmisch conference as the point at which the existence and urgency of the software crisis were openly recognized. + EWD566 dates to 1976 based on its position in Dijkstra's archive and contemporary trip reports.

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Source title Programming: from craft to scientific discipline

Source authors E. W. Dijkstra

Source year 1976

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