It could be nice to have a non-snark explanation to avoid confusion.
The infinite page method given is programming technique. It is neither computer science nor software engineering in the way that a technique for holding a hammer is neither part of architecture nor mechanical engineering.
"[Software Engineering] is a 'systematic approach to the analysis, design, assessment, implementation, test, maintenance and reengineering of software, that is, the application of engineering to software.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
I think you read too much into the response. It didn't seem snarky to me. Sure, your explanation gave very helpful details, but I don't think the GP was being obnoxious.
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This guy is not in computer science and knows more than me about this stuff.
I quit.
None of this is really "computer science" though, right?
So what is it?
Software engineering, which is a largely unrelated discipline.
Jeesh,
It could be nice to have a non-snark explanation to avoid confusion.
The infinite page method given is programming technique. It is neither computer science nor software engineering in the way that a technique for holding a hammer is neither part of architecture nor mechanical engineering.
"[Software Engineering] is a 'systematic approach to the analysis, design, assessment, implementation, test, maintenance and reengineering of software, that is, the application of engineering to software.'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
Software engineering is a part of applied computer science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
I think you read too much into the response. It didn't seem snarky to me. Sure, your explanation gave very helpful details, but I don't think the GP was being obnoxious.
Web development minutiae.
And he has "noindex, nofollow" for his site. Kind of humble tumbledryer.
Humble and ensuring I won't be able to find this page again in 2 weeks :(
What?