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Re: Sunday, December 30, 2001
I'm the kind of person who looks at something and immediately starts thinking about how it doesn't work, or how I can break it. That's what I enjoy doing, so that's where I usually go first. Maybe the construction metaphor works for any structured creative effort? We build teams, organizations, support, ... The end goal, I think, is to frame the discussion - in this case, how is programming like or unlike construction - so that we can discover more about programming. It's a technique to facilitate understanding, or to teach. So I think the analogy of the business structure of construction works better in the IT programming world, but not as well in the COTS or embedded-system world. Likewise, the analogy of the construction process. And I'm not any closer to figuring out how the construction analogy fits with the process of testing . . . Thanks for the discussion. -Dave
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