> Recently, our correspondent from Wales wrote:
> ... the changes have been done and
> tested one at a time as they are merged. Real engineering process is the
> only way to get this sort of thing working well.
Which doesn't conflict. Engineering does not require science. Science helps
a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why
cement works.
> All the alchemists ever managed to create were cases of mercury
> poisoning.
and chemistry, eventually. You take it as far more demeaning than its meant.
But right now given two chunks of code, I find out what happens by putting
them together not by formal methods. In the case of alchemy v chemistry the
chemists know whether it will probably go bang before they try it (and the
chemical engineers still duck anyway)
Alan
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