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: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax... (was Re: Any research putting c above ada?) Date: 1997/05/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 243796498 Distribution: world References: <33859489.7FB8@spam.innocon.com> <3385B67B.1439@msim.co.uk.spamstop> <5m4idq$oc4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article jfbode@nospam.mail.earthlink.net (John Bode) writes: > > Hoax is the wrong word, and I must apologize for it. It's rather ``oxymoron'', > > not unlike ``computer science''. > > > > I wouldn't call "computer science" an oxymoron -- most of the *theory* is It's an oxymoron because the two words don't fit sensibly together. Well, that's the point, and IMO, that is pretty accurate in this case. OTOH, I don't see how "oxymoron" can be plausibly applied to "software engineering". Well, maybe as a joke! (i.e., as currenty done, they don't fit sensibly together). /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com