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Re: So you call yourself an architect?

Subject: Re: So you call yourself an architect?
From: Berk/Devlin <armadill -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 12:15:05 -0700

On Mon, 7 May 2001 18:16:29 EDT, NarrWriter -at- aol -dot- com wrote:

The first definition of architect in the Oxford English Dictionary means "a
master builder" and viewed in an expansive sense - the term has been
generally applied to those people who build things, even if what gets built
is not a building. ...

One of the books I depended upon most while designing and developing software is called "Notes on the Synthesis of Form" and it is indeed about designing buildings.

What Safire fails to understand is that the process of designing a complex piece of software or a computer-based system is very, very similar to the process for designing a building.

But then he fails to understand many, many things, many of which are OT.

--Emily

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