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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: New Discussion (first meetings)...digression
Message-ID: <2569@pucc-h>
Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 03:28:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 25 03:28:35 1986
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Summary: programming is engineering, but...

In article <363@3comvax.UUCP>, michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) writes:
> it is also the case that the activity of programming is true engineering.

But remember that Daniel D. McCracken, I think around the time he was president
of ACM, commented something like this:

"It has been said that software engineering is the only branch of engineering
that never develops prototypes.  Actually, software engineering is the only
branch of engineering that *delivers* nothing but prototypes, i.e., the first
thing anyone can get working!"

Would you be proud to say that about yourself?