Bob Engelhardt,

Hey Bob ! Your kind reply re. computer science after my closing remark (ain't engineering) took
real guts. For a genuine software engineer to fess up and tell it like it is was refreshing dialog,
to say the very least. Please know I did not mean to denigrate the efforts and passions of "real"
software engineers in any way. My closing was aimed at that peculiar bunch of keyboard peckers who
seek to elicit the respect and admiration due to another and wildly divergent branch of technology.
Note I didn't say "Engineering". Very respectfully,

Bob Swinney


"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message ...
Pete C. wrote:
Actually writing good software *is* engineering, ...

I was a software "engineer" for 25 years before retiring in '92. Maybe
things have changed since then (although I doubt it), but in my career I
never did myself, or saw, or heard about, or read about someone using
math to analyze the behavior of software. That is the essence of
"engineering": the use of math models, based on science, to analyze &
predict the behavior of a design. Be it electrical, mechanical, civil,
chemical, metallurgical, whatever real engineering. All based on
science. Software is NOT included.

Don't get me started on "computer science".

Bob