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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Programming (was Register usage)
Summary: Only by disabling the good
Message-ID: <1316@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 10:59:23 GMT
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In article <7040@cg-atla.UUCP>, morrison@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Morrison) writes:

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> One motto was stressed over and over again in a course I took on
> Software Enginerring back in the seventies: "The goal of Software
> Engineering isn't to make good programmers better, it's to make
> average programmers as productive as the best."

This is utter nonsense.  It makes just as much sense to try to make
an average baseball player a Babe Ruth, an average soccer player a Pele,
or an average physics student an Einstein.

This can only be done by disabling the talents of the good.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)