About the Author

H.S. Lahman wrote his first software program on a plug board in 1957. That was such a character building experience that he spent the next decade as an exploration geophysicist employing cutting edge techniques in most of the major swamps, deserts, tundras, and jungles of the Free World. He then returned to school to learn about economics, operations research, and computing. For the next three decades he developed software in MIS, scientific, and R-T/E environments. He became an advocate of OO development in 1982. In the ’90s he became an advocate of improved software quality and development processes.