Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!csm From: csm@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Is it Art or is it Engineering Message-ID: <6879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 6 Feb 88 01:36:35 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 Keywords: Art Engineering Tolerances There seems to be a perception among programmers that current software development is not really "engineering." What do "real" engineers do that we do not? Is there anything in programming that is analogous to the term "tolerance" in engineering? Brad Sherman - (You See Bee) I don't know what I like, but I know art when I see it.