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From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.org (Ralph Silverman)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax...
Date: 1997/06/12
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Keith Shillington (keith@sd.aonix.com) wrote:
: Ahem.  Amen.  Agreed.

: In fact, I'd swing out onto the thin ice on the skinny branches and say
: that to "code" more than that breeches the boundaries between software
: engineering and, well, let's not mince terms here, hacking.  And, home is a
: great place to hack.  I don't want to knock hacking.  I love to hack. 
: There's something wonderful about tinkering, like writing HTML in VI; like
: counting the number of clock cycles in a loop to see if some blindingly
: fast operation can be made faster; not because it needs to be, but because
: it can be.  This, on the other hand, tends to be inappropriate in an
: environment where the software you (I, we) are writing ultimately will wind
: up on someone elses plate to be maintained.

: Robert Dewar pontificated:
: | William said:
: | 
: | <<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!>>
: | 
: | I can only understand this if you replace "writing software" with
: | "coding". To me documentation, design, version control, project
: management,
: | bug reports etc etc are an *integral part* of what writing software is
: | all about.


	what is
		hacking
	:
	just
		software engineering
	without a license
	?

--

Ralph Silverman
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