Amazing. Something I’ve posited often in the past, and here someone’s actually gone and come up with a theorem (Connell’s Theorem) for it. Certainly unprovable, but then again, what’s one more provably unprovable theorem in the vast sea of said class of theorems ( P-NP complete, Halting problems, etc.).
Now who’d have thought that something so obvious would elude academia as long as it has. All the certifications in the world do not a good software engineer make. It takes the a person opening to broader view that understanding the domain of a problem or problems faced in the whole gamut issues involved the the creation software from nothingness isn’t precisely quantifiable. Requirement’s gathering will be “just good enough”. Sure you can iterate, and iterate to the n-th degree to refine your solution, but those in this industry know how often that really works out precisely they way they expect.
It’s time our colleges and universities step up to the plate, and take Software Engineering out the second class citizen status it’s been in for the past couple of decades. Computer Scientist, Software Engineer ? Just two choices, or is there yet another path where a union of the two can work to the betterment of both. There is…but some people will put up a fight against it.
Why oh why ?
May 18, 2009
Why oh why, indeed. Two major political parties, two major schools of thought on softare development ( closed/open source ), and the list goes on and on. Even when you think there are choices sometimes, the choices are merely shades of some primary color or another.
Why really, what comes to my mind is, why not ? Why not another clearer, just as vital, just as viable choice ?
This blog is just a blog, but it’s all unto itself. Choices aren’t all I’m going to blurb about, but hopefully to all who visit, what I have to say, will help you, just as others have helped me. Expanding ourselves is at the root of what blogging, social networks, and the like, are all about. Sometimes that expansion is about finding choices, alternatives ; sometimes it’s about simply seeing things from a completely different point of view that go against the choices in front of us.
And to those who’re wondering, the name of this blog is loosely a reference to The Matrix .
I’m sure some of us were left wondering, why wasn’t there another possibility. Another pill. A Green Pill. The rabbit hole isn’t the only path, and staying in “Wonderland” isn’t precisely the most desireable choice either.
So, now there’s The Green Pill. Contribute, express, choose.
