I mean to write something about it a year ago, but things happened and I got preoccupied and distracted. That's how life keeps dragging us on as usual. Two articles with different point of view had their respective merits. (Ref[1] [2]). However, in the past five years, I did see oxymorons, lot of them, floating around myself. It, to some extent, caused me to begin reckoning, or even soul-searching, upon what I did and what I saw in the past five years. I start to question some critical choices I made in the past as well as the wisdom behind them.
By the way, I ran into T a few days back (Ref[3]). I am glad that he is doing well. That's what I called "a more favorable circumstance".
References:
[1] Is Software Engineering an Oxymoron?, By Allen Holub, 03/15/2005, SD Times
[2] Software engineering is NOT an oxymoron, By Jack Ganssle, 03/23/2005, Embedded.com
[3] Bye-bye, T, 01/31/2005
