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by hkt 869 days ago
In other news, software engineering as a discipline is dead because Windows used to crash a lot!
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Didn't Ian Sommerville actually say in a blog post that he thought he had "wasted his time". Very sad.

SE is an amazing aspiration, but I often think we've seen half a century where it's impact has been negligible outside a handful of high stakes safety critical systems (and not even there these days: Boeing etc)

At least its impact on general societal health and culture has not been negligible... to put it nicely.