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In article <9107300407.AA04935@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp>, huw@spls5.ccs.mt.nec.co.jp (Huw Jonathan Rogers) writes:
|> 	There is definitely room for a programming department, but if it's
|> got to have a parent for gods sake give it to Elec Eng, since at least
|> they're engineers and know what "manufacturing" actually means.

You are a bigger fool than I thought.  Electrical Engineering  I S  N O T
the place to teach an engineering approach to programming.  If you were 
really an expert as you allude to, you would know that COMPUTER ENGINEERING
is a seperate disipline within engineering.  What you are saying is similar
to telling a Mechanical Engineer to design a bridge, just because that 
engineer has knowledge in tool frame design for lathes.  The principles are
the same, but there are differences. 

Engineering is by nature a cross disipline field.  What is done in Mechanical
relates to Civil and Electrical, and Computers in all but the simplest systems.
A good electrical engineer will understand that there are differences, but
is not expected to understand the caveats (sp?) of computers.  That is the 
area that is best left to the computer engineer.  If you think that this is
utter bullshit, go up to the first electrical engineer and ask that person
what a DAT or a LSA is.  Or ask them what a PMMU is.  Unless they have done
graduate studies or are designing computers, they will most likely look at
you rather funny.

PS. A DAT in this sense is not a Digital Audio Tape.  It is something that is
important to computers, not to audio sound.


andy
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