On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:46:46AM -0500, Joe Johnston wrote: > I've been very interested in software engineering practices for a while > now. > > ... > > Sure, programming is an art, but so is brige-building and highway > construction. Yet, the process that creates these real-world > constructs is very carefully controlled and monitored. Software > Engineer is lagging behind its physical counterparts.
No, we're not lagging behind. Software engineering is VERY young - at most, 60 years old. Civil and naval engineering are more like four thousand years old and mechanical engineering at least two thousand years old. It is no surprise that they have managed to iron out a great deal more bugs in their processes than we have. And no, I don't think all our bugs are ones which have been solved in other engineering disciplines. -- David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david o/~ I want my SMTP o/~
