Re: A curiosity from the eighties...

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From	Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
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Subject	Re: A curiosity from the eighties...
Date	Mon, 8 Apr 2013 17:04:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Bill Gunshannon <bill@server1.cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> In article <khdjdb$q53$3@reader2.panix.com>,
>        Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon <billg999@cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>>> In article <7bKdncSpGrzcBrfMnZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>>        drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
>>>> > Mine are older.  And say IBM on the edge.  :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Ah, but which is less common? :)
>>> 
>>> No flowcharting template is "common" today.  Like much of the original
>>> programming art flowcharting is no longer in vogue.
>> 
>> no flowcharting is why so much software sucks these days.
>> 
> 
> You're preaching to the choir.  I spent years trying to find out how
> what passes as Software Engineering today is better than what we used
> to do when I was a professional software developer.  Doesn't matter
> that we did a lot more deskwork and design and, yes, more contact with
> the user than what they teach as SE today.  As everyone knows newer
> is always better.  Thank you CMU and the SEI....

What whole "engineer" + computers stuff borders on fraud. I'm not sure how 
it's even legal to say. I'm not aware of any states that license software 
"engineers".

Just imagine the laughability factor of a SE putting their seal on 
a project and signing off on it, and being liable for it failing.

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A curiosity from the eighties... Miguel Pebre Rodrigues <miguel.pebre@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 08:50 -0800
  Re: A curiosity from the eighties... billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2013-02-24 18:12 +0000
    Re: A curiosity from the eighties... drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2013-02-24 16:59 -0600
      Re: A curiosity from the eighties... billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2013-02-25 03:36 +0000
        Re: A curiosity from the eighties... Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2013-03-08 20:58 +0000
          Re: A curiosity from the eighties... bill@server1.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2013-03-08 21:29 +0000
            Re: A curiosity from the eighties... Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2013-04-08 17:04 +0000
            Re: A curiosity from the eighties... Shannon <neurodancer@icloud.com> - 2019-06-13 16:33 +0000
  Re: A curiosity from the eighties... drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2013-02-24 16:58 -0600
    Re: A curiosity from the eighties... Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2013-02-24 23:51 +0000

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