Hahaha, this is it exactly! Perpendicular, but a poignant friend/mentor of mine said "real software engineering hasn't emerged because there aren't enough people dying yet."
He said that after I made my bid on what the difference is. My angle was: the difference between software and engineering is just that when the real bridge you designed falls over with people on it, you probably won't work again, whereas in software we just apologize to the users and just ship a nice hotfix for them. In any event it seems that he and I agree that the difference is usually one of consequence, or lack thereof. I must tip my hat, however, to Alan's argument that we haven't even found our arches yet. This just resonates with me, especially after stomaching all of this best-practice-as-religion crap in industry; I really want more evidence that we haven't got a clue what we're doing yet, because it would be lovely to dispel the myth that we do. On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Craig Latta <cr...@netjam.org> wrote: > >> Can I ask how this is not an OS? > > Operating systems have more entertaining failure modes... if a > really bad crash can render the hardware unbootable, it's an operating > system. :) > > > -C > > -- > Craig Latta > www.netjam.org/resume > +31 6 2757 7177 > + 1 415 287 3547 > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
