[e-lang] Security is the Turning Point?

[Peter Van Roy]

According to John Allen, keynote speaker at the latest
International Lisp Conference, the turning point that
will force software engineering to become a real
engineering discipline instead of a hacker's paradise is
*security*.  He substantiates this claim by historical
analysis of other disciplines.  For example, when did
other engineering disciplines start using calculus
(surprisingly late in the US: only between WWI and WWII).
His slides are available here:

  http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/allen-slides.pdf

So what do you think?

Peter