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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!lkirby
  2. From: lkirby@axion.bt.co.uk (Lewis Kirby)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
  4. Subject: Re: What is Software Engineering
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.122933@axion.bt.co.uk>
  6. Date: 12 Aug 92 11:29:33 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug3.225335.13213@projtech.com> <1992Aug6.114743@iti.gov.sg> <1992Aug10.035604.19618@bony1.bony.com>
  8. Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
  9. Reply-To: lkirby@axion.bt.co.uk (Lewis Kirby)
  10. Organization: British Telecom Research Labs
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  14. In article <1992Aug10.035604.19618@bony1.bony.com>, richieb@bony1.bony.com (Richard Bielak) writes:
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  16. |> As for the term "software engineer", it always reminds me of the
  17. |> phrase "sanitation engineer".  Are we not secure enough to be called
  18. |> "programmers" ?
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  20. Not quite in the thread, but very often I hear people using terms like "platform",
  21. "machine", "workstation", and so on, but they seem very reluctant to use "computer".
  22.  
  23. Lewis G Kirby   Telephone +44 473 645807
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  25. Hindsight is the only exact science
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  27. sig pretentious quote number 167
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