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- From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.150329.9287@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:03:29 EST
- References: <1992Nov11.055130@eklektix.com> <1992Nov13.211018.24360@novell.com> <books.110.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu>
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- In article <books.110.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu>, books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.091220.9284@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo) writes:
- >>IMHO, there is probably no better background for SE than physics. Why?
- >>Problem solving. Experimental techniques. Basic understanding of the
- >>strangeness of the universe. All useful.
- > I don't know about that last one. The Physicists are some of the most
- > intelligent people I know. They can solve almost any problem you throw
- > at them, but, their programming is kludgey and atrocious to maintain.
- > From what I've seen they seem to be trained to get it done now. If it
- > involves dropping a kludge in to make it work they do and then forget
- > about it. This may be different with theorists but the experimentalists
- > I work for don't write maintainable code.
-
- Might be a difference in the objective. Based on my experience with people
- working on a product as opposed to scientific lab code, code produced by
- physicists has not been kludge code (="klode"?). My experience has been the
- commercial environment.
-
- George Kambic
- sd
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