{"id":20,"date":"2009-05-11T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-05-11T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:32:26","slug":"20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"On the Nature of Software Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read that MIT software engineering curriculum <a href=\"http:\/\/danweinreb.org\/blog\/why-did-mit-switch-from-scheme-to-python\/trackback\">switches from Scheme to Python<\/a>. The story raises an interesting point &#8211; the curriculum changed since they realized that as the systems grow in complexity, the software engineering is now much farther from precise math-like science and much closer to an experimental science, where you have to deal with large systems with bad documentation and without taking the time to fully understand them. I deeply agree with this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read that MIT software engineering curriculum switches from Scheme to Python. The story raises an interesting point &#8211; the curriculum changed since they realized that as the systems grow in complexity, the software engineering is now much farther from precise math-like science and much closer to an experimental science, where you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-programming","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.or.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}