Lindsay Marshall wrote: > creative. I would contend that there is a tremendous amount of what > amounts to debugging in science and that it often constitutes the > largest part of any experimental endeavour : you design an experiment to > test a hypothesis and it doesn't work and so you try to find out why. > Sounds like debugging to me. In fact it sounds very like debugging > someone else's undocumented code without any source...
Exactly! When I mentioned science, I was particularly thinking of hypothesis-testing. Furthermore, scholarship is not the only field outside of software development that has to "debug stuff" (find faults in artifacts). Doctors diagnose, mechanics examines, lawyers interrogates, commissions of inquiry investigates, and so forth. What interests me is what methods they use (for example, scholarship uses Occams razor), what commonalities and differences there are, and most significantly if there are any lessons to be learned by software developers. With regards to scholarship, I am currently reading Peter Naur's "Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules", which has an entire chapter devoted to the topic. - Automatic footer for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe discuss To join the announcements list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe announce To receive a help file, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] help This list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/ If you have any problems or questions, please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
