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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/27
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tim says

<<It may not be semantically correct to refer to 'software engineering
technology'
but the programming metaphor forces the issue...>>


Of course it is semantically correct. You can refer to the technology
of graphology, or the technology of basket weaving, or anything else.
Technology is a *very* general word in normal English usage. Kaz is
pushing his own remade lexicon, but do not get confused by it. The trouble
with this kind of discussion of the meaning of words is that a lot of
readers of CLA are not native English speakers. It is not helpful to anyone,
but especially not helpful to that group, to use English words in a 
non-standard manner!