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Book review of: Breaking the Time Barrier: The Temporal Engineering of Software
I wrote this book to make an impact on the quality of software and to get developers to think how the model starts with the specification and is integral to the application. Someone will capitalize on my work to produce a specification to application tool. That will be model driven software.
Here is another review.
Gordon Morrison
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COSA provides the answer..., August 13, 2009
In 20 years of software development and testing, I have sought a methodical approach to the task. With an ingrained hatred of spaghetti code, I struggled on the fringe to bring together something similar to COSA. Morrison's Breaking the Time Barrier outlines a cohesive and disciplined approach that has been lacking in the software industry for decades. I am pleased to see it presented in a text which is easy to read and provides ample examples. With a strong PASCAL and Delphi experience the book resonates with me and I hope the reader unfamiliar with PASCAL and Delphi takes the time to appreciate the approach. The benefit of built in debugging will likely save time and money on many projects. I am looking forward for an opportunity to experiment with the technique and recommend the read to anyone involved in the software industry.
T. Wickard, Director of Engineering, Souriau
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Gordon Morrison has used expert knowledge of compiler design techniques and data structures to produce a beautifully elegant method to write computer programs. His book is intriguing and hard to put down once started. He shows how software is simplified when control and data are fully separated. He demonstrates the clarity of logic when conditions of data are removed from the implementation. This forces the programmer to think about the logic of the solution instead of special exceptions. And he proves that programs so written are more efficient than modern programming alternatives and are, in fact, specifications with 100% traceability and observability. I found myself thinking how straightforward implementing the control solution in programmable logic would be while the data half would easily be handled in external RAM. The concepts Gordon Morrison explains will surely become commonplace.
In case you need credentials, I am a senior member of the IEEE, hold multiple engineering degrees, and hold several patents. My current title is Director of Global Technical Marketing for Premier Farnell. I was previously a Senior Engineering Manager at Harris Corporation.
Randall Restle
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Here is another review.
Gordon Morrison
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COSA provides the answer..., August 13, 2009
In 20 years of software development and testing, I have sought a methodical approach to the task. With an ingrained hatred of spaghetti code, I struggled on the fringe to bring together something similar to COSA. Morrison's Breaking the Time Barrier outlines a cohesive and disciplined approach that has been lacking in the software industry for decades. I am pleased to see it presented in a text which is easy to read and provides ample examples. With a strong PASCAL and Delphi experience the book resonates with me and I hope the reader unfamiliar with PASCAL and Delphi takes the time to appreciate the approach. The benefit of built in debugging will likely save time and money on many projects. I am looking forward for an opportunity to experiment with the technique and recommend the read to anyone involved in the software industry.
T. Wickard, Director of Engineering, Souriau
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Gordon Morrison has used expert knowledge of compiler design techniques and data structures to produce a beautifully elegant method to write computer programs. His book is intriguing and hard to put down once started. He shows how software is simplified when control and data are fully separated. He demonstrates the clarity of logic when conditions of data are removed from the implementation. This forces the programmer to think about the logic of the solution instead of special exceptions. And he proves that programs so written are more efficient than modern programming alternatives and are, in fact, specifications with 100% traceability and observability. I found myself thinking how straightforward implementing the control solution in programmable logic would be while the data half would easily be handled in external RAM. The concepts Gordon Morrison explains will surely become commonplace.
In case you need credentials, I am a senior member of the IEEE, hold multiple engineering degrees, and hold several patents. My current title is Director of Global Technical Marketing for Premier Farnell. I was previously a Senior Engineering Manager at Harris Corporation.
Randall Restle
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Comment by Gordon Morrison on November 6, 2009 at 1:34pm -
I’ve been selected as a presenter at the 2010 Systems & Software Technology Conference in Salt Lake City, April 2010. I’m excited about being selected and looking forward to presenting.
The theme of the conference is "Technology: Changing the Game".
From the website: “This year, the Systems and Software Technology Conference will explore various technologies which are expected to make abrupt changes to common thought. We will explore the tools, the processes, and the ideas which will "change the game" and make the way we have done things in the past - obsolete.”
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Comment by Gordon Morrison on August 1, 2009 at 1:55pm
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Mark, go to my website at www.vsmerlot.com there are a few things there that will give you more insight into to what I've invented.
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Comment by Gordon Morrison on August 1, 2009 at 1:50pm
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Boating gets in your blood. Two years ago I joined my father-in-law on his boat in Cascais Portugal near Lisboa. His boat was a 46 Nordhavn, we cruised up to Porta, around to La Carouna Spain. Then took three days crossing the Sea of Biscay to Brest France. From France we went around to St Peter Port on Guernsey. We crossed the English Channel to Brighton then up the coast to St Katherine's Haven next to Tower Bridge. It was quite a journey. If you google Nordhavn Atlantic Crossing there are several accounts of the group of 32 small cruisers that two years before crossed the Atlantic. Their boat was number 5. I did not get to cross the Atlantic nor cruise the Med with them although I certainly would have enjoyed that too. Enjoy your time off it ends way to quickly.
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Comment by Mark Dalgarno on August 1, 2009 at 11:21am
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Nice review Gordon.
I wonder whether anyone here on the network would be interested in also reviewing the book.
FWIW I am also a recent boater. Started dinghy sailing a couple of years ago and moved up to yachts last year. Have cruised in the Scottish Islands a couple of times and in the Solnet once. Am looking forward to a few more trips this year.
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Comment by Gordon Morrison on July 30, 2009 at 9:54pm
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It's available electronically via Kindle but not in PDF. I'm a boater too. I took my power boat from Pensacola, FL down the Gulf ICW to Houston, TX where it sunk during Hurricane Ike. What kind of boat are you sailing?
Gordon
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