On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Josh Coates wrote:
we also talked a lot about jiffy lube, and the idea that someone
who works
at jiffy lube is not the same as someone who designs engines - but
in the
early days, a mechanic == automotive engineer, but that's not the case
anymore.
I recently came across a paper discussing this topic--the comparison
of the current state of software engineering to the early years of
traditional engineering, how formal training and science/math were
applied to bring about our current engineering discipline, and how
software engineering is likely to move that way in the future.
If you're interested, it's at: http://international-lisp-
conference.org/multimedia/allen-paper.pdf
--Levi
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