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- From: jerry@austin.ibm.com (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: What is Software Engineering
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.150412.5960@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:04:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug6.114743@iti.gov.sg> <1992Aug10.035604.19618@bony1.bony.com> <1992Aug10.191113.11841@projtech.com> <1992Aug11.205559.14680@ide.com> <1992Aug12.014403.9892@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.014403.9892@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick) writes:
- > schmid@ide.com (Stephen Schmid) writes:
- >
- > >As a carpenter is to an architect,
- > >so is a programmer to a software engineer.
- >
- > A dangerous analogy to make to the son of a carpenter, who spent much
- > of his childhood listening to his father fume about unlivable,
- > unimplementable designs. Some of the things he had to talk people out
- > of were so stupid even I saw it, but some were rather subtle.
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- In several of the places that I've worked, there was a clear delineation
- between those doing software 'architecting/designing' (engineering?) and
- those doing the actual implementation (programmers). On many occassions
- there were large holes in the architecture (big enough to drive a truck
- through). In other cases, even when implemented as designed, the function
- failed for very subtle reasons (following a code path not anticipated).
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- With these kind of problems, I would suggest that the analogy from Stephen
- Schmid is more correct than not.
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- >
- > Brian Marick, marick@cs.uiuc.edu, uiucdcs!marick, marick@testing.com (pending)
-
- jerry
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