On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:21:00AM -0800, Thomas Lord wrote:
> 2) Your question does get to the heart of some of the problems
>    but misses other parts of the heart of the problems.  By
>    asking for "line numbers and lint warnings" you are taking 
>    too narrow a view of what engineering is.

"Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is, at
best, only an opinion."

>    Programs are expressions of mathematical thoughts.  If the 
>    actions of an engineer could be appropriately judged just
>    by looking at the programs that engineer writes then 
>    engineering would be just a branch of mathematics.

Mathematics is engineering without grease.

-- 
Andrew Suffield

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