On 8/26/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I very much like using the term /industry/ in the definition (and/or > description) of "software engineering". Other terms that may need to be > stirred in are /art/ and /philosophy/. What else? > > All these, to me, suggest that thinking in terms of [narrow] absolutes > may not be appropriate.
Not appropriate in some sense. But expedient. Maybe computing being so hard to classify into the categories that came before it is a reason that it's had such a monumental impact on our lives and futures. Maybe if we had found an easy classification at the beginning, we'd've developed notions of what it should do and what it was aiming at that would have limited its impact to that of math or science generally. Just a thought. And not one I'd personally defend with very much vigor. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
