Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: software engineers Message-ID: <1320@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 10 May 89 15:10:29 GMT References: <854@odyssey.ATT.COM> <10231@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <12701@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> Sender: piet@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland Lines: 18 In-reply-to: smiller@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Steven M. Miller) In article <12701@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>, smiller@umn-cs (Steven M. Miller) writes: `> In article emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: `> `> >Have you ever seen a civil engineer debugging a bridge after it has been built? `> ` `Sure. the brand new bridge in St. Paul MN over the Mississippi just `buckled. The temporary solution was to put a bunch of concrete barriers on `the bridge to push the buckled part back in line. Permanent solution is `now being worked on. ` Some time ago there was a CACM article about the design of bridges (CACM April 1986). It mentioned a few cases of bridges that collapsed during or shortly after the construction. -- Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)