It deserves repeating:

These videos are also available on the net. Many really good talks there.

http://www.sdm.de/conf2001/index_e.htm

Henrik

PS. For example, if one downloads

http://www.sdm.de/dt/tec/eve/2001/ppts/f_3_parnas.pdf

(the slides for one talk) then turns to page 12, one can see the world's no
1 authority on modularity state "use hierarchical modules for complex
systems", plus how and why, stated plainly in something like 50 pt type.
Perhaps that could help settling a certain other discussion once and for all
;-)

> The following speakers, who have made truly outstanding contributions to
> this field, spoke at the conference:
> 
> (Listed in alphabetical order)
> Friedrich L. Bauer, From the Stack Principle to ALGOL
> Rudolf Bayer, B-tree and Relational DBMS (in place of E. F. Codd)
> Barry Boehm, Software Economics
> Fred Brooks, OS/360
> Peter Chen, Entity-Relationship Modeling, DB, Computer-Aided Software Eng.
> (CASE)
> Ole-Johan Dahl, The Root of Object-Oriented Programming: Simula 67
> Tom DeMarco, Structured Analysis
> Edsger W. Dijkstra, From "Goto considered harmful" to Structured Programming
> Michael Fagan, Inspections
> Erich Gamma, Design Patterns
> John Guttag, Algebraic Specifications of Abstract Data Types
> C.A.R. Hoare, Software Fundamentals: Assertions and Program Verification
> Michael Jackson, Data Structures & Algorithms
> Alan Kay, Graphical User Interfaces: Mice and Windows
> David L. Parnas, Decomposing Systems into Modules
> Niklaus Wirth, Teaching Programming Principles: PASCAL
>