Is engineering software on-topic here? To be clear (because the precise meaning of the word "engineering" has regrettably been blurred in usage in recent years), I specifically do not mean software engineering---which after all is the chief topic of debian-devel. I mean engineering in the traditional sense of the word: the study, design, construction and technical application of physical structures, apparata, devices and manufacturing processes which operate reliably, safely and cost-effectively under adverse conditions in real physical environments. If engineering is the "how?" which follows science's "what?" and "why?", then engineering software may or may not be on topic here. Current Debian examples of engineering software include tochnog, nec, geda, acs and lam4. A physicist might find tochnog and lam4 almost as interesting as a mechanical engineer did. On the other hand, if electrical engineers started discussing VHDL on this list, the scientific subscribership might get pretty bored pretty fast. A list should not be overly broad. I don't mind if you exclude engineering. However, I happen to be an engineer so, Helen and/or others, please comment. -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, t@b-tk.org, thb@debian.org
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