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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/26
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Date: 1997-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5mcp5o$ei7$3@news.cc.ucf.edu>,
Fritz W Feuerbacher <fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
>Kaz Kylheku (kaz@vision.crest.nt.com) wrote:
>
>: Software is not technology; the stuff that it runs on is technology.
>
>So the concept of Software Engineering Technology is not a technology?  I

The concept of software engineering is flawed to begin with. Engineering is
the application of physics to produce technology. 

If physics is not involved, you aren't producing technology, nor are you
doing engineering.

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_.