Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!LINDENTHAL.CAE.RI.CMU.EDU!jwb From: jwb@LINDENTHAL.CAE.RI.CMU.EDU (John Baugh) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: software engineers Message-ID: <4951@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 8 May 89 23:07:55 GMT References: <854@odyssey.ATT.COM> <10231@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <12701@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16 In article <12701@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> smiller@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Steven M. Miller) writes: >Software can be orders of magnitude more complex and commonly has to run on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >multiple hardware platforms. You're comparision seems to be between As a once-practicing civil engineer, all I can say is `baloney'. (BTW, I have also worked on software projects of > 100,000 lines of Fortrash, so I at least have some experience on both sides.) Visit your friendly neighborhood consulting AE firm to get an idea of the number of people, specifications/requirements, etc. that must be coordinated in the design and construction of a real engineering product -- it's staggering. John Baugh --