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From: anson@elrond.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Software Engineering vs. Computer Science
Message-ID: <724@elrond.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 09:29:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 09:29:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 31-Mar-87 05:47:50 EST
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Reply-To: anson@elrond.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: Calcomp Display Products Division, Hudson, NH, USA
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In article <4422@utah-cs.UUCP> shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs) writes:
>
>(I've been in both industry and academia and am now considered too theoretical
>for industry and too practical for academia.  What a bind! :-) )

That can work both ways.  In academia, my students were happy that I could
provide some practical perspectives.  Now, in industry, my theoretical
background helps me to solve some of the tougher problems.

When I was just finishing grad school (1975), Software Engineering was just
becoming a topic in Computer Science.  It was highly theoretical, because
nobody knew how to treat it as a discipline yet.  A lot of progress has been
made, but I still think of SE as application of specialized theory.  But
that's *my* problem.  :-)

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