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Article #21442Re: Programming (was Register usage)
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 10:59
Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 10:59
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In article <7040@cg-atla.UUCP>, morrison@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Morrison) writes: ...................... > One motto was stressed over and over again in a course I took on > Software Enginerring back in the seventies: "The goal of Software > Engineering isn't to make good programmers better, it's to make > average programmers as productive as the best." This is utter nonsense. It makes just as much sense to try to make an average baseball player a Babe Ruth, an average soccer player a Pele, or an average physics student an Einstein. This can only be done by disabling the talents of the good. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Programming (was Register usage) Summary: Only by disabling the good Message-ID: <1316@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 24 May 89 10:59:23 GMT References: <966@aber-cs.UUCP> <7040@cg-atla.UUCP> Distribution: eunet,world Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 18