Website review: Rejecting Software Engineering - E...
Zero1Infinity discovered this in Programming
•2 reviews since Jun 28, 2007
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Zero1Infinity discovered 13 months ago- Building software is not like building a bridge. It's just not. In physical, "real world" engineering you have the laws of physics, near perfect information on durability, composition, balance, etc. A programmer, as Fred Brooks puts it (The Mythical Man Month) is like a "poet who works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff". There is a plethora of languages and methods for achieving the same results in software development and none of them are exactly the same. For something to be labeled as an engineering science in my opinion, it needs to have known values and be infinitely repeatable. Software development meets neither of these.
- wsriley rated 13 months ago
- The article is wrong but worth reading for the debate.
