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an essential component of software development, but could not in them-
selves ensure a successful development effort. Programming remained a
highly skilled occupation, and programmers continued to defy tradi-
tional methods of job categorization and management. By the end of the
1960s the search for a silver bullet solution to the software crisis had
turned away from programming languages and toward more compre-
hensive techniques for managing the programming process. Many of
these new techniques involved the creation of new automatic program-
ming technologies, but most revolved around more systemic solutions as
well as new methods of programmer education, management, and pro-
fessional development.
