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From: tstcroix@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/26
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> 
> Examples: writing software is not engineering, and the result is not
> technology, because principles of physics are not required to understand the
> internal semantics of software systems. Designing a pure logic circuit isn't
> engineering either, except when you have to solve implementation problems
> related to heat dissipation, capacitive or inductive coupling and other
> artifacts related to the _technology_.

It may not be semantically correct to refer to 'software engineering
technology'
but the programming metaphor forces the issue...

tim