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- From: leisner@wrc.xerox.com ( Marty Leisner)
- Subject: Re: Productivity vs. Complexity
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.014919.10220@spectrum.xerox.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:49:19 GMT
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- Travis Marlatte (travis@eecs.nwu.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Training a person to design a software system is no different than
- : training that person to design a hardware system. It takes basic
- : engineering skills refined for a particular discipline.
- : --
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- Wow!!
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- Electrical engineers will agree on a good design. Software engineers generally won't.
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- I think writing software is as much "enginnering" any type of creative activity.
- --
- marty
- leisner.henr801c@xerox.com leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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