Xref: utzoo comp.object:3360 comp.software-eng:5465 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!abvax!iccgcc!kambic From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (George X. Kambic, Allen-Bradley Inc.) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: <4365.2816ec94@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 25 Apr 91 19:49:55 GMT References: <1899:Apr1206:12:4991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Apr12.201053.18348@visix.com> <1991Apr17.175106.5581@hilbert.uucp> Lines: 14 In article <1991Apr17.175106.5581@hilbert.uucp>, jeff@hilbert.uucp (Jeff Freedman) writes: > In article steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes: >> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: >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. Novels have critics and readers with opinions. Software must unequivocally meet requirements at some point or it "don't fly". You need engineers for that. GXKambic standard disclaimer