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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Computer langauges and software lifecycle - references request
Message-ID: <3326@ae.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 May 89 14:07:48 GMT
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In article <10230@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Norman Diamond's signature contains:


>  Why are programmers criticized for
>  re-inventing the wheel, when car
>  manufacturers are praised for it?

Car manufacturers do not re-invent wheels -- they re-implement them.  Not
only that, they don't even construct the implementations themselves; they
specify the new implementations and have others make the wheels for them!

Car manufacturing is mostly engineering, not science.

Rich
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