Letters

ABSTRACT

The long and short of the Waterfall model, addressed by Phillip A. Laplante and Colin J. Neill in “‘The Demise of the Waterfall Model Is Imminent’ and Other Urban Myths” (ACM Queue 1(10), February 2003), is that it is based on a need within current implementations of imperative programming languages. This need, as do all the deficiencies pointed out, disappears with the introduction of fourth-generation, declarative languages—for example, SQL and AI.

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