From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-08-21T00:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby!

Chris Game wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
> 
> 
>>...typically the goal is to get code to run, and run right, and
>>then refactor to beauty.
> 
> 
> Is that what they teach in schools these days? What happened to
> software engineering?
> 


Well, school never taught me to refactor, period.  But "software 
engineering" is an interesting misnomer.

http://rubyurl.com/6aI

AKA

http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/articles/teoseatsoecg/theendofsoftwareengineering.htm


also http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail175.html

"In this insightful interview with IT Conversations' producer Doug Kaye, 
Alistair explains how he uses games as a model for software projects, 
and how he discovered that the term "software engineering" was created 
on a whim in 1968. He also discusses the American and European aversion 
to copying: the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome. "If you want to become 
a senior designer, you don't get there by finding all the components 
that are free on the web" even though "that's very cost effective, the 
customer likes it, the boss likes that, but you didn't get promoted." [ 
Hear clip: [http://rubyurl.com/DeN] ]."


James


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