If we examine the evolution of software engineering over the past fifty years, it becomes apparent that every major advance is dependent upon the refinement of dozens of proceeding breakthroughs. As many experts in the field have now recognized, all new developments can be somehow characterized as extensions of an existing pattern or known process. Thus, computer scientists are all standing on the shoulders of giants as they experiment with new spins on old themes.

If all of the statements in the passage are true, each of the following must also be true EXCEPT:


(A) Productive computer scientists must possess the ability to expand on precedents.

(B) A few modern software engineering techniques make use of novel hardware and represent true independent breakthroughs.

(C) The groundwork for all modern software engineering was laid more than fifty years ago.

(D) No discovery in computer science is truly independent of any previous work.

(E) Close inspection of any modern software can reveal the old ideas or processes upon which it is based.


OA B

Source: Veritas Prep