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- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!riacs!george.arc.nasa.gov!lehman
- From: lehman@george.arc.nasa.gov (John Lehman -- GDP)
- Subject: Re: Terms [Was: What is Software Engineering]
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.165508.24230@riacs.edu>
- Summary: What are we?
- Keywords: "software technicians"
- Sender: news@riacs.edu
- Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 16:55:08 GMT
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- >>
- >> In the rest of the technical world, scientists try to figure out why the
- >> latest thing the engineers built works, engineers build products, and
- >> technicians handle the scut work.
- >>
- >> The label programmer covers all three quite well.
- >>
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- ___"software technician"___ would be a good term to describe
- most jobs in the software industry; such as a job where
- one does a lot of miscellaneous things that aren't
- really "programming", "engineering", nor "science".
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- What would we call someone who spends excessive time
- reading newsgroups? "software airhead"? I'm kidding,
- but actually, thanks Chris, your entire message is
- right on, except I'm not so sure about calling everyone
- a programmer.
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- lehman@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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