Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Development vs Engineering Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 17:03:13 GMT References: <27696@bellcore.bellcore.com> <2450009@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> <84754@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <5682@stpstn.UUCP> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: cox@stpstn.UUCP's message of 14 Oct 90 14:06:48 GMT In article <5682@stpstn.UUCP> cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox) writes: This is where we depart from engineering... i.e. that programmers feel competent to reinvent our raw materials from first principles. A couple of questions. Before there was object-oriented programming, there was function-oriented programming. Everyone invented useful, *reuseable* functions to do all sorts of basic things (how many sort routines have you seen?). Yet, it went very little further than the basics (I never saw a reusable accounting function). Why? And why should one expect that reusable, object-oriented programming will go any further? -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"