On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Arjang Assadi <arjang.ass...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wish I could agree with that, but how does what we as software > engineers do differs from the building or bridge engineers, surely > they don't build bridges or building on what "they" perceive to be the > right way. > > Surely there must be some sort of canonical form to implementation, > otherwise we are not software makers and just duct taping hodge podge > together. Every (software) system will gravitate towards maximum > entropy and minimum order and the programmer's job is to stablised it > by imposing order and decreasing the entropy. Having a structure for > defining how a system should be implemented would reduce the number of > possible permutation and hence decrease the entropy. > > I believe a systematic approach to defining and implementation is > necessary other wise we are just adding to total sum of junk in the > world.
Careful, if there is a systematic way to doing such things, you will soon find yourself replaced with a system :P > Regards > > Arjang -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
