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- From: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox)
- Subject: Differences between SE and EE Components
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.151428.3624@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
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- Summary: Differences: SE and traditional engineering
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- Organization: George Mason Pgm on Social and Organizational Learning
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:14:28 GMT
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- baragry@latcs1.lat.OZ.AU (Jason M Baragry) wrote:
- > Are there any other differences / similarities between SE and traditional
- > engineering disciplines that people can think of ?
-
- There's one small difference, a small matter apparently so minor that it
- is never ever mentioned in posts such as yours, in OO training classes, or
- in the SE literature in general.
-
- You can make *money* by selling EE components. That is, it is clear what
- it means to own, to buy, and to sell tangible goods; goods that cannot be copied
- in nanoseconds and copied at light-speed around the globe. Thus specialization
- of labor works robustly to minimize complexity by encapsulating it inside
- each others' products. Reuse works because it is driven by commercial
- self-interest.
-
- Doesn't anyone else agree that this difference is not as unimportant as all
- of SE tends to treat it?
-
- See "What if there *is* a silver bullet...and the competition gets it first?";
- Journal of OO Programming; June 1992 and Dr. Dobbs' Journal; October 1992.
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- Program on Social and Organizational Learning; George Mason University
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