From: Dossy Date: 2002-05-13T22:50:16+09:00 Subject: Re: OT:is software eng an art? On 2002.05.13, Steve Merrick wrote: > Dossy - I'm just using your comment as an opening for what I have to > say. [I.e. this isn't a direct attack on what you wrote.] I hope that's > OK with you? ;-) You never need to apologize to me. :-) > Software design begins with a problem for which there is currently no > acceptable solution available. The designer is required to *create* such > a solution; creativity is an intrinsic part of design. I think I did say that software _design_ is creative, while software _engineering_ is prescriptive and formulaic which leaves little room for creativity by intentionally constraining all important variables. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)