Editing Software crisis (section)

== History ==
The term "software crisis" was coined by some attendees at the first [[NATO Software Engineering Conferences|NATO Software Engineering Conference]] in 1968 at [[Garmisch]], Germany.<ref name="nato">{{cite web|url=http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/NATOReports/index.html|title=NATO Software Engineering Conference 1968|access-date=26 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="nato2">{{cite web|url=http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF|title=Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO SCIENCE COMMITTEE Garmisch, Germany, 7th to 11th October 1968|access-date=26 April 2017}}</ref> [[Edsger Dijkstra]]'s 1972 [[Turing Award]] Lecture makes reference to this same problem:<ref name="ewd340">{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html|title=E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (EWD 340)|access-date=26 April 2017}}</ref>

{{Quotation|text=The major cause of the software crisis is that the machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem.|author=[[Edsger Dijkstra]]|title=''[[Edsger Dijkstra#Writings by E.W. Dijkstra|The Humble Programmer (EWD340)]]''|source=[[Communications of the ACM]]}}