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Subject:Re: Certification Redux From:Benzi Schreiber <benzi -dot- s -at- SAPIENS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Jun 1997 10:16:05 +0300
"L. Burnham O'Donald" <lodonald -at- PRIMENET -dot- COM> wrote:
>
>
>Not to add more heat here, but actually programmers and engineers would
probably approach a design project in much the same way; that is, each
would come up with a different way to design the thing, depending on
their individual skill sets. Some designs would be well done, with a
minimum of tightly integrated code/circuits; some would be kluges. (This
may well be why software engineering isn't regarded as "engineering" in
some circles and why it's illegal to call yourself an "engineer" in many
places..... <g> )
>
That's *exactly* why software engineering *should* be regarded as
engineering; you can write a program in many different ways to fulfil
the same function, just as you can design a circuit in any number of
ways. In both cases, the trick is knowing how to do it in the most
efficient way.
--
Benzi Schreiber
Sapiens Technologies Ltd
Rehovot, Israel
benzi -dot- s -at- sapiens -dot- com
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