From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "William M.Gordon" Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax... (was Re: Any research putting c above ada?) Date: 1997/05/23 Message-ID: <3385B67B.1439@msim.co.uk.spamstop>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 243339052 References: <5lsjb3$bqc@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <33859489.7FB8@spam.innocon.com> Organization: GEC-Marconi Reply-To: gordon@msim.co.uk.spamstop Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > I would go as far as saying that ``software engineering'' is a hoax. I'm what I consider to be a software engineer and I only spend about 10-15% of my time writing software. The rest of it is to do with documentation, design, version control, project management, bug reports, etc etc. At home though I'm a programmer! ------------------------------ William M. Gordon