From: Dossy Date: 2002-05-14T04:34:02+09:00 Subject: Re: OT:is software eng an art? On 2002.05.14, Steve Merrick wrote: > "Dossy" wrote in message > news:20020512040028.GC25936@panoptic.com... > > > Software engineering is not an art, it is a science. > > This isn't a statement of belief, it's an objective claim. If valid, it > is true independent of the perceptions or conceptions of any individual > human(s). Assuming this is correct, and I haven't misunderstood, please > supply the objective justification for the correctness of your claim. > > [I don't expect this will be possible. ;-) When I see *certainty* > expressed, in almost any context, I hear alarm bells ringing....] > > I think you have written down your own opinion, but mistakenly expressed > it as fact. Am I right? ;-) :-) If it were art, it'd be called "software artistry" not "software engineering." Q.E.D. ;-) -- 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)