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,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: Ada jobs & Programming: Art or Science? [was: MN] Date: 1999/02/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 445167474 References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36c25c45.0@news.pacifier.com> <79v9f4$fe$1@remarq.com> <79vd9b$45k$1@remarQ.com> <7a1eir$6oe$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36C8A705.597D432A@planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com> <7aablt$qqt@drn.newsguy.com> <36C99BDF.BF0FA38F@mediaone.net> <7acbfk$c0t@drn.newsguy.com> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: kevin@nospamworld.com wrote: : This 'design' vs. 'coding' is an artificial or managerial view of the : real world. One can't just hit the keyboard without knowing what there : are doing. if they do, then they are bad programmers. nothing else. No, it is not artificial, it has the do with the difference between domain and implementation knowledge, among others. : So, get off this 'coder' vs. 'designer' mentality. This is only created by : those who have little clue about what software is all about. (Like authors : of books on 'software engineering' who could not write a 2-lines program : if their live depended on it) By this generalization and putting down others, you make it hard to take your other arguments seriously. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk