Explain the ACM's opinion regarding software engineering as a discipline, and its reasons for withdrawing from an initiative with the IEEE that helped define a suitable body of knowledge for software engineers.

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The ACM's position is that software engineering as a discipline is too immature for its body of knowledge to be defined with precision. The ACM suggests that having an entrance exam would be counterproductive because it is likely that the public could be misled about the ability of licensed software engineers to produce reliable software.

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Write the commands to remove all the space characters stored in the shell variable text. Be sure to assign the result back to text. First use tr to do it and then do the same thing with sed.

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Inheritance means ______________.

a. that data fields should be declared private b. that a class can extend another class c. that a variable of supertype can refer to a subtype object d. that a class can contain another class

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If a class represents a date (such as July 4, 1776), then the date could reasonably be stored in

a. A member variable of type double. b. Two member variables of type int. c. Three member variables of type int. d. A string of characters (like "July 4, 1776"). e. A string for the month and two int variables.

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