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- Subject: Re: Is Borland the leader in technology?
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- From: philbo@arasta.uucp (Phillip Lindsay)
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 21:47:56 PST
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- Organization: Phillip Lindsay, Tustin CA
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- henley@eng.auburn.edu (James Paul Henley) writes:
- > In article <H5NPVB1w164w@arasta.uucp> philbo@arasta.uucp (Phillip Lindsay) wr
- >
- > Agreed, the Software Engineer has an important role to play, but it is not
- > being played in many cases.
- >
- > >domain? A Chemical Engineer should be in a role where they best express the
- > >needs. We need to be in role that best addresses their needs. High level
- > >tools alone is not the answer.
- > >.....................comments deleted
- >
- > So, we don't need high level tools? Or you don't want to develop high level
- I did not imply this?
-
- > tools? What *is* the answer? All I want to do is make life easier for both
- > of us. I want you to do what you do best, and let me do what I do best. I
- > realize that involves more that just developing the tools, but without them
- > things are going to stay in the current rut.
- >
- I don't think my sentence implied that "we didn't need high level tools?" I
- was merely expressing the point that high level tools don't address all
- issues. For instance, a friend of mine (with a Computer Science background)
- was working with several PHDs on an SDI project. The scientist's speciality
- was material science. They used "high level tools" on Sun Workstations
- to design silicon and needed my friend's help to build tools which
- understood the silicon and could test it with several tools and models in
- a reasonable time frame (with the help of a Sun hosted number cruncher).
- The project could not have been completed without his expertise. The funny
- thing is that he ended up designing silicon and becoming a department expert
- before budget cuts chopped the department.
- > James P. Henley Jr.
- > Visiting Assistant Professor
- > Department of Chemical Engineering
- > Auburn University
- >
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