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You'd figure we would have treated SWE like other kinds of engineering and avoided the pitfalls of 2000 years of civil eng and 200 years of electrical eng, and
by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
You'd figure we would have treated SWE like other kinds of engineering and avoided the pitfalls of 2000 years of civil eng and 200 years of electrical eng, and yet here we are in 2023 where using at least static analysis is not the norm
- timbit42 4y agoWe should have followed the path of the Wirthian language and Ada. I think part of the reason it wasn't followed is because Pascal wasn't as good as C, but Pascal was intended as a teaching language, not a real world language. Modula-2 was intended as a real world language but it was too late. There was a while in the 80's when Ada was more popular than C++ but only because of the DoD. The DoD, NASA and air traffic control systems still use Ada.
- agumonkey 4y agoSWE tried to be like EE, but in a shallow way, that's what UML and components were in the early 2000s, an attempts at emulating EE. But not on laws and principles.. just on the representation.