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There is one, very simple reason that software engineering will never be a real Engineering discipline in all or even most cases:
* People will not pay for bridges that fall down.
* People will pay for software that crashes.
“ I am actually physically disgusted that so many computer science programs think that Java is a good introductory language, because it’s “easy” and you don’t get confused with all that boring string/malloc stuff but you can learn cool OOP stuff which will make your big programs ever so modular. This is a pedagogical disaster waiting to happen.
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“ this is america - australia got the convicts, canada got the french, we got the puritans, we’re stuck with them
via dan savage on this wk’s real time