| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 161.1 | y | SIERRA::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Fri Mar 21 1986 16:44 | 3 |
| Anyone that can't spell shouldn't be promoted to one anyway !
/Eric
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| 161.2 | non-words forever! | DELNI::GOLDSTEIN | Fred @226-7388 | Thu Mar 27 1986 16:38 | 5 |
| Wait a second. If it weren't for all the Principle Engineers,
who else would use Kernal mode?
Seriously, the misspellings that float around notesfiles -- er,
I mean Conferences -- can be almost excruciating!
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| 161.3 | | APTECH::RSTONE | | Fri Mar 28 1986 08:42 | 5 |
| I thought Principle Engineers were those who concentrated on the
principle aspects of their projects. :-)
Roy
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| 161.4 | These *is* such a thing - he told me! | VOGON::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Fri Mar 28 1986 09:56 | 4 |
| I had a mail from someone looking for a posting to Reading who said
he was a Principle Software Engineer.
Jeff.
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| 161.5 | I are one! | APTECH::RSTONE | | Fri Mar 28 1986 10:33 | 3 |
| I must be one! I have company-provided business cards which attest
to the fact! (Or should I blame the under-paid secretary who placed
the order for them?)
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| 161.7 | "My pal the principal." | DELNI::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Fri Mar 28 1986 17:23 | 15 |
| The business cards and the job requisitions are most likely
wrong.
If the word is an adjective, it is usually followed by a
concrete noun, and is correctly spelled 'principal;' _e.g._,
the principal engineer, the principal valve. If the word is
itself a noun, it is usually referring to an abstract idea,
and is spelled 'principle;' _e.g._, the principle of covariance.
The principal of a school is an exception. You can think of the
person holding that title as the principal educator.
My business cards say "Principal Software Engineer."
Dave C.
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| 161.8 | Principled Engineer | AMOS::GARDNER | | Fri Mar 28 1986 17:52 | 7 |
| This was called to my attention several years ago by the woman who
is now my wife. I double checked, and every DEC business card I've
seen then or since says Principle Engineer (sic). At the time,
I explained to her that, since I occupy a position of trust, I'm
a Principled Engineer, and the printer had dropped the "d". I
actually got this out both without pausing and with a straight
face.
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| 161.9 | The Explanation | NETMAN::CALLAHAN | | Tue Apr 01 1986 16:24 | 11 |
|
Haven't you heard? The field of Artificial Intelligence has been
extended to include Artificial Ethics, and these Principle Software
Engineers are the ones who write the code.
I wish them luck in their search for human models. (Wasn't it Diogenes
that had trouble finding one that was just honest?)
Joe
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| 161.10 | | TLE::WINALSKI | Paul S. Winalski | Sat Apr 05 1986 17:36 | 13 |
| RE: .8
DEC business cards say on them what the employee who ordered them wants them
to say. My supervisor's cards list his title as 'Supervising Engineer' instead
of the correct title of 'Engineering Supervisor.' Mine says 'Principal
Engineer,' which is my correct job title, as listed on my letter of promotion
and all of my performance reviews. 'Principle Engineer' appears on business
cards because the person who ordered the cards was either lazy or illiterate.
Being functionally illiterate seems to be one of the requirements to be
graduated from MIT.
--PSW
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| 161.11 | | VIKING::FLEISCHER | Bob Fleischer | Mon Apr 07 1986 14:38 | 8 |
| re Note 161.10 by TLE::WINALSKI:
> Being functionally illiterate seems to be one of the requirements to be
> graduated from MIT.
As Curly (of the Three Stooges) used to say, "I resemble that"!
Bob
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| 161.12 | Principal principle | 43353::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue Apr 08 1986 04:39 | 8 |
| Re: .7
> The business cards ... are most likely wrong
Most likely?? I didn't think there was any need for *debate* on
this matter! We all *know* the difference (don't we?).
Jeff.
(Principal Software Engineer)
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| 161.13 | I left out the critical punctuation. | DEREP::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Tue Apr 08 1986 13:11 | 13 |
| Re .12
> Re: .7
>> The business cards ... are most likely wrong
>
>Most likely?? [....]
I wanted to leave open the extremely small possibility that
that the cards and the job requisition described a person
who designs principles. I should have put a smiley face mark
in there.
Dave C.
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| 161.14 | Only took six years | GAVEL::SATOW | | Mon Nov 23 1992 09:50 | 25 |
| re: .9 (submitted April Fools' Day, 1986)
How prophetic! AI hasn't advanced as fast as predicted, so instead of
"Artificial" Ethics, we are soon to have an Ethics VP, and thus an
organization for Principle Engineers.
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Haven't you heard? The field of Artificial Intelligence has been
extended to include Artificial Ethics, and these Principle Software
Engineers are the ones who write the code.
I wish them luck in their search for human models. (Wasn't it Diogenes
that had trouble finding one that was just honest?)
Joe
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| 161.15 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | It's been a lovely recession. | Mon Nov 23 1992 18:37 | 5 |
| >we are soon to have an Ethics VP,
Most likely to have an even shorter lifetime than other VPs. Sigh.
-- Norman Diamond
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