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Re:Software engineering research questions by Barrin92 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @06:17AM (#32660345)
that's because creating software is all about making human artifacts, not studying the natural world and that's an inherently subjective task. It's like asking "what's the best set of tools for a blacksmith?" or "what's the best way to brew beer?". Well, depends very heavily on the blacksmith or the brewery. Of course that doesn't mean all tools are equally good, but all the interesting cases are going to be personal.

There is no scientifically correct answer to what often are not objective questions, you will quickly find out that almost everyone will weigh the questions that the article asks very differently, for often legitimate reasons.

Re:Software engineering research questions by naasking on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:07PM (#32668366)
> that's because creating software is all about making human artifacts, not studying the natural world and that's an inherently subjective task

Electronic circuits are also human artifacts, but there objectively valid principles and practices for developing those. Of course there are also opinions and subjectivity on some characteristics that generally don't matter to the actual functionality, but that seems far from where software development currently is.