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Software Not Physical

“We clearly do not now have an engineering capability comparable to those based on the physical sciences. Such a capability is what is implied by the term software engineering. But software is not a physical system, it is a description of what one describes how a given physical system (a computer of some sort) should act. Thus software is more akin to engineering drawings, either maintained on paper or within a computer. ... So probably it is incorrect to assume software engineering should be considered as a sibling in the family of the physical science based engineering disciplines.”

• Source: Kenneth W. Kolence; Jeffrey Yost (2003). An Interview with Kenneth W. Kolence. Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology. Retrieved 2018-03-27 from https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107415 or https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107415/oh348kk.pdf .

• See Also:
  • What Is Software Design? by Jack W. Reeves. Published February 23, 2005)
    • https://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design.html
    • This essay first appeared in the Fall, 1992 issue of C++ Journal.
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