Re: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: Platforms for SOA

[Anne Thomas Manes]

Did you know that the basic wing design for the Cessna has not changed in more than 40 years?

Anne

On 8/8/06, Ashley at Metamaxim < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Dan wrote:

 

> How have cars evolved over time? How much of that original model T is
> in todays cars? Do car engineers spend all their time re-using what
> they had before or do they sometimes throw out and re-build from scratch?

 

In a recent conversation with Michael Jackson (the software methodologist, not the bizarre guy with the plastic face) he recommended the following book as a good insight into the way engineering evolves:

 

"What Engineers Know and How They Know It" by Walter G. Vincenti.

 

It's about aeroplanes rather than cars. It's subject is the intellectual content of engineering.

 

Michael opined that it should be required reading for software engineers.

 

Rgds

Ashley

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