“Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter ‘How to program if you cannot.' ”软件工程是不是教会不怎么会写程序的人开发软件?你的观点?
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这段引用来自于Edsger W. Dijkstra的一篇文章,他是计算机科学领域的先驱之一。Dijkstra在这里表达了一种对软件工程领域的批评态度,认为软件工程的部分目标是帮助那些本身编程能力不强的人也能进行编程。从某种角度来看,这种说法有其合理之处,但也有需要进一步讨论的地方。