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From: rst@cs.hull.ac.uk (Rob Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Designing CASE systems around Human Limitations
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Date: 28 Feb 91 11:17:39 GMT
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Scott McGregor writes:

>CASE (COMPUTER AIDED Software Engineering) it is curious--have we
>forgotten that it is the HUMAN that needs the aiding?

But that is what CASE means.

              Computer Aided Software Engineering
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This means that the human does the software engineering, aided by the
computer.

It doesn't mean that the computer does the software engineering, aided
by the human. If only ...

Rob