In contrast, traditional engineering, for instance building construction, is constrained by well defined and well known physical laws.

相反，传统工程(比如建筑)则是被良好定义的和广为人知的物理法则约束着。

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However, the fact is that civil engineering relies on a number of well-known physical laws of nature, and again, software engineering doesn't!

然而事实是土木工程依靠的是一些众所周知的物理定律，而软件工程不是！

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Does this mean that we should abandon all hope of finding fundamental laws and developing a more engineering-like approach to developing software?

这难道意味着我们应该放弃所有寻找基本定律的希望，以及开发一个更像工程学的方法来开发软件吗？

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New tax laws will have corporate accountants and their attorneys re-engineering their finances.

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