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From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CASE - The Emperor has no clothes on!
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:51:16 GMT
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bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:

>Doesn't a 4GL that generates database update and report applications
>represent the bridge construct?

No.

Or should I ask, bridge between what and what?
And what's a `4GL'?

>Isn't what we are trying to achieve with Software Engineering simply a 
>restricted subset of the GPS (General Problem Solving) Algorithms of the
>past decades?

No.

>Are we not trying to create a general problem solving (and
>construction) algorithm by trying to find an effective software engineering
>method that works for everything?

No.

>Are we not trying to solve problems we have not yet defined?

Yes.  You, for instance, haven't defined the problems to which you
refer in your article.


-- Jon
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