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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Computer aided s/w engineering
Message-ID: <2703@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 14:37:03 GMT
References: <1043@pembina.UUCP> <40529@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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Keywords: CASE

In article <40529@sun.uucp> ram@sun.UUCP (Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems) writes:
|      CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering
|      Software Engineering - Tools & techniques that aid in better use
|			     of COmputers.
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|      The use of COmputer AIded seems to be overkill.

A better definition of Software Engineering might be "tools & techniques for
the design of computer programs".  It should be obvious that one can do
program design without ever touching a computer.
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Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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