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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/29
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Kaz says

<<The concept of software engineering is flawed to begin with. Engineering is
the application of physics to produce technology.>>

OK, so finally we have the most peculiar Kaz definitions of these two words.
They bear of course absolutely no relationship with the normal English
meaning of these words that you will find in a dictionary.

For example, in OED2, we have

Engineering. The work done by, or the profession of, an engineer.
Engineer. One who contrives, designs, or invents, an author, designer.
Technology. A discourse or treatise on an art or arts; the scientific
study of the practical or industrial arts.

Now you are perfectly free to use your own peculiar definitions -- you
might want to write them in some special way, perhaps <<engineering>>

to remind us all not to read them in the usual sense. But you are NOT
free to complain about other people failing to use the words in your
peculiar way!