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[Levi Pearson]

On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Josh Coates wrote:
>
> we also talked a lot about jiffy lube, and the idea that someone  
> who works
> at jiffy lube is not the same as someone who designs engines - but  
> in the
> early days, a mechanic == automotive engineer, but that's not the case
> anymore.

I recently came across a paper discussing this topic--the comparison  
of the current state of software engineering to the early years of  
traditional engineering, how formal training and science/math were  
applied to bring about our current engineering discipline, and how  
software engineering is likely to move that way in the future.

If you're interested, it's at: http://international-lisp- 
conference.org/multimedia/allen-paper.pdf


         --Levi