Review of "The Environment for System Programs, by F. G. Withington", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1978

One of the ongoing problems facing business data processing has been that many of our programming personnel have come to us with educational and professional backgrounds that are nonbusiness related. As such, their knowledge of the users, organizations and products for which programs are designed is initially limited. Until a thorough understanding of the environment in which they function is obtained, these programmers must have a limited effectiveness. Fred Withington has given us a product that will quickly provide a fundamental understanding of this business data processing environment.