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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-03 07:37:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:38:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1067873823 42277254 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1989 Date: 2003-11-03T16:38:52+01:00 List-Id: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:14:08 -0500, Robert Spooner wrote: >Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: >> ... >> I wonder, why do you think that mentoring is more important in software >> engineering than in all classical sciences? Or in professions like doctors and >> lawyers? > >Actually, I think that if you look at how things are handled in this >country in the sciences and medicine, you will find a lot of mentoring. >Physicians serve internships and residencies after graduation from >medical school. Graduate students in the sciences are typically mentored >by their advisors - sometimes well, sometimes not. They often have to >take postdoctoral fellowships as well before obtaining a permanent >position. In the life sciences in particular, it can take years. In fact software engineering has a large amount of poorly described, unsystematic, informal knowledge. Often it is even not a knowledge one can learn, but rather behavioural patterns, or even reflexes, which one rather trains, first. Then one builds a thick layer of all sorts of reflections upon that, to justify it. (mostly wrong reflections, of course (:-)). And so, finally one becomes a true Software Engineer. This makes software engineering so close to arts, where mentoring is indispensable. --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de