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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!monsanto.com!bigez!dmmatt
- From: dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix)
- Subject: Re: Debugging the process
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.092037.1@bigez>
- Lines: 43
- Sender: news@tin.monsanto.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Monsanto Agricultural Company
- References: <1992Dec30.185928.367@cs.rit.edu> <1992Dec31.112259.1@bigez> <1993Jan2.191524.27916@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:20:37 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan2.191524.27916@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, sullivan@cs.washington.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec31.112259.1@bigez> dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix) writes:
- >>
- >> [stuff deleted]
- >>
- >>The only
- >>improvements in accuracy and timeliness of systems in the last 20 years
- >>can be traced directly back to technological breakthroughs not new
- >>project management/software engineering procedures.
- >
- > I sure wish I could judge whether or not to believe statements like this.
- >
- > I don't mean to pick on this author particular, but to note that software
- > engineering debates are unlikely to converge for as long as their quality
- > remains at the level of such ex cathedra pronouncements. If studies on a
- > topic have been done, we should reference them when making assertions like
- > this one; if not, we should indicate our correspondingly low confidence in
- > the truth of such claims.
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > Kevin Sullivan
- > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FR-35
- > University of Washington
- > Seattle, WA 98195
-
- Kevin,
-
- Let's put the shoe back on the other foot. What major improvement in the
- implementation of computers has occured within the last 20 years due to
- software management (i.e. methodologies, etc). Before denouncing me as a
- heretic how about some proof that I am in error. (Those who know me will tell
- you that I often am..)
-
-
- --
- Mike Mattix
- Agricultural Group of Monsanto
- P.O. Box 174
- Luling, LA 70070
- INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
-