Subject: Software Engineering
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Mon May 01 2000 - 02:26:12 EDT
"Cyber Nursery"
Mother McGee went to drive C:
to find her poor Windows a byte
But, when she enquired, all drive space expired
And not even Stacker would put it right.
Little Miss Muffet opened her notebook
and called on WordPerfect to write
Along came a spider, who sat down beside her,
and explained how the function keys worked.
Jack and Jill are married still
but things look kinda scary
He loves a PC; she's fond of a Mac
and RISC makes both of them wary.
Mary had a little Lan
Then, she wanted more
First she bought a lot of RAM
Then part interest in a computer store.
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"Software Engineering"
A software engineer, hardware engineer and departmental
manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland.
They were driving down a steep mountain road when
suddenly the brakes failed. The car careened out of control,
bouncing off guard rails until it finally ground to a halt along
the mountainside.
The occupants of the car were unhurt, but they had a problem.
They were stuck halfway down the mountain in a car with no
brakes.
"I know" said the manager. "Let's have a meeting, propose a
Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals,
and through a process of Continuous Improvement, find a
solution to the Critical Problems, and we'll be on our way."
"No," said the hardware engineer. "I've got my Swiss army
knife with me. I can strip down the car's braking system,
isolate the fault, fix it, and we'll be on our way."
"Wait," said the software engineer. "Before we do anything,
shouldn't we push the car back to the top of the mountain,
and see if it happens again?"
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