From: lws@comm.WANG.COM (Lyle Seaman)
Subject: Re: Ted Holden's disinformation
Date: 21 Mar 90 23:27:02 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.232702.20713@comm.WANG.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8308@hubcap.clemson.edu
billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes:
> counterpart. This is despite the fact that STANFINS-R had to take
> raw COBOL programmers and train them to be Ada Software Engineers,
This is interesting. Would I be stepping into another endless and
static debate if I wondered why the noun here changed from "programmers"
(with a lower case 'p') to "Software Engineers" with uppercase letters?
In my experience, the terms programmer and software engineer conjure up
two entirely different worlds of practice. I can't imagine training
a programmer to be a software engineer (much less a Software Engineer)
in anything like the amount of time spent of STANFINS-R.
I think this is a shameful attempt to further one's argument by using
subtly loaded language distinct from the issue directly at hand.
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Lyle Wang lws@comm.wang.com
508 967 2322 Lowell, MA, USA uunet!comm.wang.com!lws
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1990-03-10 20:35 ` Ted Holden's disinformation William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-12 15:58 ` Wayne Wood
1990-03-12 19:36 ` dennis.f.meyer
1990-03-21 23:27 ` Lyle Seaman [this message]
1990-03-22 17:02 ` Programming vs. Software Engineering William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-23 16:45 ` Chip Salzenberg
1990-03-24 6:32 ` Paul S. R. Chisholm
1990-03-24 17:03 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-26 20:30 ` Archer Sully
1990-03-27 15:54 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
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