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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bdc41aa5ff8e1d93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers Date: 1996/08/14 Message-ID: <96081412192021@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174923299 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU x-vms-to: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-vms-cc: CONDIC Date: 1996-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: James Krell writes: >Let's say an organization is developing software for a radar system... >Is it better to take engineers/scientists who understand the system >and teach them how to program? Or is it better to take programmers >and teach them about the radar system? > My experience has been that you generally need a little bit of both. The hypothetical radar system is going to need "application" oriented software and it's going to need "system" oriented software. Taking a radar expert and training him/her as an "application" programmer can be useful. But you're probably wasting time training them on all the ins/outs of system level programming - and hence the value of the computer scientist. Often, you have the domain specialists acting as analysts and the computer geeks translating this into design. This works well as long as both sides are reasonably good at communicating. Maybe companies would be better off hiring some of both and training them all in communication skills? MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 407.796.4669 P.O. Box 109600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 Internet: CONDIC@FLINET.COM =============================================================================== "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin ===============================================================================