[PLUG] Slightly OT: PCC software engineering program

[Brian Beattie]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:55, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> On 05 Aug 2003 11:51:27 -0700
> Brian Beattie <beattie at beattie-home.net> wrote:
> 
> > Who or what industry uses "coders" who can't design?  or maybe I don't
> > know what a coder is.  In my 25 years of programming I don't think
> > I've ever done any work that did not require some design.  Though I've
> > been in the embedded systems/systems programming area.
> 
> A lot of app's can be slapped together without a formal design phase;
> they just take a lot longer and tend to be full of bugs.  

So I guess the answer is that coming from embedded systems and systems
programming I have not seen many of these.  Very few small apps.

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