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From: chrisp@regenmeister.uucp (Chris Prael)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Information Systems is an Engineering Discipline
Message-ID: <34348@regenmeister.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:16:46 GMT
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From article <10743@dasys1.UUCP>, by rpb@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Brady):
> The
> computer field is the first time in business history where the employees
> have had more skill than the management (ignoring easily learnable tasks).

I suggest that you earn a little bit about the histories of electrical,
electronic, mechanical, civil, chemical, aeronautical, and automotive
engineering.  The biggest difference between those fields and computing
is that no where near as many technicians managed to pretend that they
were engineers in any of those fields as have done so in computing.

Chris Prael