Comment by WillAdams
9 months ago
It's an improvement over demagoguery and blind rule-following.
Moreover, the book argues for engineering principles (in pretty much all possible senses of that phrase).
9 months ago
It's an improvement over demagoguery and blind rule-following.
Moreover, the book argues for engineering principles (in pretty much all possible senses of that phrase).
Sure!
I'm not saying that philosophy is bad. Maybe making software just never meant to become an engineering discipline. I mean making clothes, laws, and music isn't. And it's fine.
But engineering does imply some rule-following.