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From: "dogmat" <macdonaldrj@bv.com>
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/10
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Cyanide wrote in message <34DF21B8.717C4B1@stopspamiinet.net.au>...
>> In engineering, if the programmer writes the application, it'll look
>> great
>> and be absolutely useless.
>> If the engineer writes the application, it'll look like hell, both
>> internally and externally, but it will actually be useful.
>
>Ok, well what do you say to a student like me, who chose to do Software
>Engineering as a degree? (hehe) They do go on about this Barry Boeme guy
>like he solved this divide 20 years ago...


Good for you. Just don't expect to ever understand non-software engineering
problem domains.
If you want to write software for engineers, you'll need to find an engineer
who can speak
both engineering and software and work very hard on the requirements
specifications (and
still don't trust them). In this kind of environment, plan to use
prototyping development,
so the engineers have a chance to trigger their minds to remember all those
"little" things
that were so "obvious" they forgot to mention them.