Abstract :
Phillip G. Armour responds to a Tools of the Trade column by Diomidis Spinellis called "elytS edoC" in the March/April 2011 issue of IEEE Software, discussing the coding styles of software engineering. In another letter, Stefan Braun responds to a Letter from the Editor column by Forrest Shull called "Perfectionists in a World of Finite Resources," in the March/April 2011 issue of IEEE Software, discussing the concept of technical debt in the world of software engineering.