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Article #21460Re: Programming (was Register usage)
From: Tainter
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 15:17
Date: Thu, 25 May 1989 15:17
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In article <1316@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: >In article <7040@cg-atla.UUCP>, morrison@cg-atla.UUCP (Steve Morrison) writes: >> 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ shouldn't be student, ya know Actually, there is a subtle modifier missing from the original statement: "The goal of Software Engineering isn't to make good programmers better, it's to make average programmers as productive as the best ARE CURRENTLY." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The assumption is that the best will continue to get better, regardless. The average >Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 --johnathan.a.tainter--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!ihlpb!tainter From: tainter@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Tainter) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Programming (was Register usage) Message-ID: <10534@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Date: 25 May 89 15:17:35 GMT References: <966@aber-cs.UUCP> <7040@cg-atla.UUCP> <1316@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: tainter@ihlpb.UUCP (55529-Tainter,J.A.) Distribution: eunet,world Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 21