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Chapter 13
The Blind Men and the
Elephant, or the Race
of the Hobbyhorses
Mark D. Gross
Carnegie Mellon University
13.1 INTRODUCTION
Modeled on the Del Protocol Workshop of 1994, the Studying Professional Soware
Design (SPSD) Workshop at Irvine asked us each to examine the SPSD design protocols
using a specic method of analysis or perspective. e chapters in this book that result
from the workshop remind me of the tale of the blind men and the elephant—one feels the
leg and says an elephant is like a pillar; another feels the trunk and says an elephant is like
a rope, and so on. Some authors showcase the felicities ...