OT: Programmers' Day

[Kareem Shehata]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Scott
> Elcomb
> Sent: Thursday 13 September 2007 12:47
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OT: Programmers' Day
> 
> Please correct me if I wrong, but I'm thinking that by EE you mean
> Electronics Engineers.

Yup.
 
> If so, I've always considered them to be programmers; I used to be an
> electronics hobbyist, even breadboarding a partially functional 4-bit
> CPU at school.  Programmers use symbols, EE's use physical components.
>  There's not much difference otherwise, at least to my mind.

It's true that many of the techniques are similar, particularly now that
hardware can be described in several HDL's (hardware description language),
but the actual process is quite different.  More than anything, hardware
engineers simply think differently and approach problems differently.  Not
necessarily a bad thing, in fact it can often be helpful.

-kms


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