Eugine_Nier comments on Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tarmstrong 05 February 2012 09:43:14PM 9 points [-]

Is it really valid to conclude that software engineering is diseased based on one propagating mistake? Could you provide other examples of flawed scholarship in the field? (I'm not saying I disagree, but I don't think your argument is particularly convincing.)

Can you comment on Making Software by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson (Eds.)? What do you think of Jorge Aranda and Greg Wilson's blog, It Will Never Work in Theory?

To anyone interested in the subject, I recommend Greg Wilson's talk on the subject, which you can view here.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 06 February 2012 02:49:34AM 3 points [-]

Is it really valid to conclude that software engineering is diseased based on one propagating mistake?

How about based on the fact that the discipline relies on propagating result rather than reproducing them.

Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 06 February 2012 04:58:06AM 1 point [-]

It has been said that physicists stand on one another's shoulders. If this is the case, then programmers stand on one another's toes, and software engineers dig each others' graves.

If there is something that your data confirms, you want to reference somebody as a source to be seen fighting this problem.