Xref: utzoo comp.object:3229 comp.software-eng:5381 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!ogicse!qiclab!nosun!hilbert!jeff From: jeff@hilbert.uucp (Jeff Freedman) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: <1991Apr17.175106.5581@hilbert.uucp> Date: 17 Apr 91 17:51:06 GMT References: <1899:Apr1206:12:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Apr12.201053.18348@visix.com> Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Northwest, Beaverton Oregon Lines: 16 In article steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes: > brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > book than it is like a building. Do we call novelists "prose > engineers?" Do we call movie producers "audio-visual entertainment > engineers?" No, and I don't think we should. My business card says Note also that we don't call a person a novelist unless he or she has actually written a book, but it seems that there are quite a few "experienced software engineers" running around who couldn't write an ounce (at 1K byte/oz.) of software. I'd like to believe that the best software being written nowadays is at companies where the programmers are considered to be authors, rather than engineers; and that they are judged by their ability to design and write code, rather than their ability to spout jargon and write memos. -- Jeff Freedman