In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Don't start me! Dammit, too late ...
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Honestly, I thought (real) engineers were supposed to be clever.
You might want to read this:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/teoseatsoecg/theendofsoftwareengineering.htm
His thesis is very simple: engineering took a wrong turn after
WW II, and the people who coined the term "software engineering"
didn't have a clue.
Of course, he puts it a bit more diplomatically, but he's
got the data to demonstrate that software engineering
is an oxymoron.
John Roth
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