Re: Software directions to ponder over...

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From: Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 01:25:07 PDT

Jim Whitehead quoted:
>> 3. Software is still an art, not engineering. It's so
>> intractable we are essentially living in the dark ages, like
>> before Copernican Theory (the planets revolve around the sun),
>> before Einstein's theories of relativity and before Euclidean
>> Geometry. Is there a collection of software theory that will
>> suddenly turn art into science?
>
>Wow, what a confused question.

Indeed!

And how did people breath before Lavoisier discovered oxygen???

R

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