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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax... Date: 1997/05/29 Message-ID: <5mkm60$e5a@bcrkh13.bnr.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244787602 References: <338B2118.41C67EA6@metaware.com> <5mfkfq$297@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <338D1244.6324@mail.mco.bellsouth.net> Organization: Prism Systems Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <338D1244.6324@mail.mco.bellsouth.net>, Dean Runzel wrote: >I'm picking up this thread very late but I'd like to join in with a >few simple ideas: > >1) Engineering is basically the application of techniques to solve > problems. One of my EE instructors (long, long ago) said we would > be lucky to ever actually use something we learned in college > in a real world situation. Instead, he insisted that the school's > primary role was to teach problem solving techniques i.e. breaking > a problem down, combining techniques, etc. I think that this technology(1) is getting to be too long drawn out and pointless, and has to cease. -- (1) To be clear, by technology I mean ``discourse on an art or arts'', rather than the other definition: ``scientific study of the practical or industrial arts''.