software engineering project

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Shlomo!

This is the second time you've:

1. Replied to a message.

2. Without quoting any of the original. (May be considered as top-posting.)

3. While changing the original subject line completely (without doing [was 
Re:]).

4. While starting a completely new thread in the process.

I wonder if it's your user agent (which does not identify itself in the User-
Agent: header) or if you are doing something completely off. In any case, 
please stop, as this is bad E-mail netiquette. Quote the message and reply to 
each part of the message after the quoting. Keep the original subject with the 
additional "Re:". And don't start a completely new thread.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:28:57 shlomo bauer wrote:
> HI,
>
> As a former professor teaching software engineering, I was bit
> surprised by your posting -- perhaps I misunderstood your intent.
>
> Although software engineering in the large is more about process than
> code that's not always the case.  For example, software systems
> benefit from code refactoring. An example of refactoring
> is finding sequences of code that are repeated in a variety of places
> and replacing them with
> a function call.
>
> The resulting code has the same "meaning" but a different text -- the
> refactored code is easier to understand, etc.
>
> Writing a compiler inandofitself is not a software engineering project.
>
> A good project for you might be to look at a tool like valgrind.
> Consider how such tool can be incorporated in the software development
> life-cycle.  Having done so, you might then try to
> find a taxonomy of defects (NIST in america published) by frequency,
> severity, etc.   The
> interesting question then is what set of tools would be useful in
> helping uncover defects likely
> to be encountered by customers as well as ones that are catastrophic.
>
> If you really want to write code.  why not do a comparative study of
> perl and haskell for a variety of scripting.  Why these two?  Because
> haskell was a big win for perl 6 (I'll leave it to you to find out
> why).  from a software engineering perspective, language selection
> should be based on something more than, "all our code is in perl."
>
> Shlomo
>
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