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| Sep 24, 2014 at 4:42 | comment | added | vzn | spking from experience in industry, there is a tendency toward what one CS prof called "pseudopodic design" where there is a lack of overall coherent architecture and the software grows organically/ somewhat haphazardly like pseudopods shooting from an amoeba. there are those with very applied focus that build these systems often under intense schedule pressure & architecture attn can be seen as a luxury or worse/ inaccurately, superfluous. Booch with much experience describes these environments as "circles of hell". a theoretical bkg/ edu eg Phd can naturally counteract this shortsightedness. | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 23:44 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Do you think that telling a software architecture expert that "an often overlooked area of software development/design in industry and sometimes computer science departments is architecture" and then explaining that somebody from theoretical computer science "is better positioned" to help with his field than somebody "with applied focus" isn't insulting? Or did you actually mean something else? | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 21:21 | comment | added | vzn | @Peter there is no denigration intended, implied, or expressed above to anyone. not following your apparent objection. agreed software architecture is now regarded very/highly applied (apparently your main point), but historically it was very abstract in various ways eg OOP and seems started out roughly in near-research labs as "TCS" in a somewhat informal sense of "not actually used in industry" (to begin with). | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 18:52 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I think the idea that software architecture is or should be a subarea of theoretical computer science would be considered very insulting by some people who actually do software research in computer architecture. If you're trying to make a case for why a department should hire you, one of the first rules is don't insult them. | |
| Jun 7, 2013 at 3:34 | comment | added | Nobody | Pardon me. I fail to understand why so many downvotes. It seems to be a reasonable answer. Downvoters please provide reasons so that others may learn from you. | |
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| Jun 2, 2013 at 4:47 | history | answered | vzn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |