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From: frodo@b11.ingr.com (Chuck Puckett)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Development vs Engineering
Message-ID: <9066@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 19:54:25 GMT
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|windley@cheetah.cs.uidaho.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) writes:
||In article <2450009@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> gt@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (George Tatge) writes:
||
||  3. I've saved the most important for last.  My experience is that most
||  software people cringe at the idea of becomming engineers.  If it is truly
|
|I have to agree with George here (I seem to remember disagreeing with him
|on something before ;-).  Software engineering isn't engineering just
|because it has engineering in the name. (One could say the same for
|Computer Science, but that's a different soapbox.)  Turing it into an
						     >----<
|engineering discipline is going to take LOTS of time.  

A Freudian slip, nicht wahr?

Chuck "Did the machine pass The Test?? Well, did it?" Puckett