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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
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Date: 9 Mar 90 17:29:19 GMT
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In article <101567@linus.UUCP> munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck) writes:
>
>That dicotomy obviously splits the university crowd from the military-
>industrial crowd; universities have the problem that cooperative work
>is called "cheating" in most other areas, so it's difficult for them to
>take any other approach to s/w eng.  The m-i complex people have the
>problem that they cannot take the risk of entrusting a project to a
>single or small number of people because of the possibilities that they
>will be hit by a bus, poisoned at the local Chinese restaurant, or leave
>the company.
>
>I don't know how the differences can be reconciled.

just get rid of the M-I complex

:-)

just another '60's throwback
:-)


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