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From: Sandeep Mehta@bebop (Sandeep Mehta)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Architecture
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Date: 29 Mar 89 13:14:01 GMT
References: <1014@afit-ab.arpa>
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In-reply-to: wbralick@afit-ab.arpa (William A. Bralick)

In article <1014@afit-ab.arpa>, wbralick@afit-ab (William A. Bralick) writes:
>It seems to me that architecture (as in buildings, not computer systems :-) 
>should provide a useful set of lessons for software engineers.

In a lighter vein, surely you have seen the following fortune cookie on
most BSD UNIX systems:

	If builders built buildings like programmers write programs,
	then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
	civilization !

To a large extent this may still be true :-).

_sandeep

p.s. flames >& /dev/null
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Sandeep Mehta                                       ...to be or not to bop ?
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