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ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765
3.3810 software engineering

1. systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software ...

It's all there just waiting for someone to read it.

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At CHF 198.00, IEEE is "just" waiting to collect fees before permitting unwashed practitioners from reading it.

But we do get a preview and there is a link to www.computer.org/sevocab so we can get a sense of their taxonomical approach. (Try searching for "Data type").

No, it's free. Just download it from https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c0....

Thanks!

But what use is that document to the current discussion? You're not one of those people who thinks that pointing to an entry in a dictionary settles an argument?

It shows the acknowledged state of the art and thus offers an alternative for people who do not always want to start from scratch. I am well aware that there is a generation that questions everything (because they like to do so or because they simply do not know the state of the art, e.g. because it was not covered in their bachelor studies).