IP: Ballmer (of MS) on software engineering

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Oh well , guess we do have to resign now we do software engineering teaching

Dave

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From: Scott Alexander <salex@dsl.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:01:26 -0500
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Ballmer on software engineering

"That's the way good software gets designed. So if you
pull out a piece it won't run," Ballmer said. (from
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020305/tc_nm/microsoft_d
epositions_dc_3&cid=581)

Wow.  Guess I need to go back and update my software engineering
training.  Back in the 80s when I last took a class in the area, modular
design was in.  Among other things, that meant that it was quite easy to
stub out some functionality for testing, etc.

Scott






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