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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the canadian-humor dept.

pc-0x90 writes "In Canada, when engineers finish their undergraduate degree, they attend a ceremony referred to as Kipling. Alongside the formal ceremony are the kipling pranks. This year, the Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering."

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  1. Life sized? by SN74S181 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is the scale of PacMan in real life??

    1. Re:Life sized? by echucker · · Score: 2, Insightful

      According to those particular engineers, "life-sized" simply meant a convenient scale. In this case, it was the floor tiles, which appear to be roughly 12 by 18 inches.

  2. What's the connection? by Chris+Z.+Wintrowski · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "...This year, the Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering."


    I fail to see how the design of a massive Pac-Man board is, in any way, related to the *art* of designing good software.

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  3. the real prank... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the real prank was DOSsing their school's webserver by getting a link posted on /.

  4. Flawed logic by lightspawn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Software Engineers at McMaster University designed a life sized Pac-Man board, thus answering the question of whether or not software engineering is in fact engineering."

    That's like saying "The president played the saxophone, thus answering the question of whether or not politics is in fact music".