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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 15 Nov 89 17:33:59 GMT
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In article <7036@hubcap.clemson.edu> A. Jeff Offutt writes:

>Here's one of my ideas for a perfect software engineering project:
>   An operating system. ...Another one: A compiler

Please explain how these require any engineering methods and relate to
anything that goes on in the industries that produce software-dependent
systems.


Rich
-- 
We use kill ratios to measure how the war is going.
We use SLOC ratios to measure how our software is coming.
(Idea from Gary Seath)                                        rsd@sei.cmu.edu
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