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: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers Date: 1997/05/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244314408 Distribution: world References: <5m57nu$7si@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5mcp5o$ei7$3@news.cc.ucf.edu> <5md1fl$9f4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5md1fl$9f4@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) writes: > The concept of software engineering is flawed to begin > with. Engineering is the application of physics to produce > technology. If physics is not involved, you aren't producing > technology, nor are you doing engineering. Well, that's a mighty odd constraint of the term. What about chemical engineering? Or genetic engineering? These strke me as eminently appropriate examples of real engineering. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com