From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-05-12T05:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: OT:is software eng an art?

On 5/11/02 11:44 AM, "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> wrote:

> 
> So, is software creation an art or a discipline (or a science)?  Opinions
> welcome.

Karl E. Wiegers speaks about "The misguided notion that software is art and
hence not amenable to discipline."

I think the notion that art is not amenable to discipline is itself
misguided.
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I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist.
This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. -Matt Cartmill,
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