richh@pnet02.cts.com (Rich Herzog) (05/21/88)
I love it ! I am having an interesting time indoctrinating my engineering management (a good bunch of guys, but hardware manufacturing specialists) into what software engineering is about. In the same light as the Tailor and the Specifications parable, there was some years ago (5?) published (in the Proceedings of the ACM}n) a parable called 'Why Isn't Sam Coding Anything' I need it, because I am having to explain to my manager why my programmers aren't coding (wei] are somewhere between top-level and detailed design). Someone -- please post or email this classic !{ Thanks in advance. .rh UUCP: {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax rutgers!marque}!gryphon!pnet02!richh INET: richh@pnet02.cts.com
yuval@taux01.UUCP (Gideon Yuval) (05/23/88)
>In the same light as the Tailor and the Specifications parable, >there was some years ago (5?) published (in the Proceedings of >the ACM}n) a parable called 'Why Isn't Sam Coding Anything' > >I need it, because I am having to explain to my manager why >my programmers aren't coding (wei] are somewhere between top-level >and detailed design). > >Someone -- please post or email this classic !{ > Me too (if it's E-mail). Thanks -- Gideon Yuval, yuval@taux01.nsc.com, +972-2-690992 (home) ,-52-522255(work) Paper-mail: National Semiconductor, 6 Maskit St., Herzliyah, Israel