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Alas, society can't call us programmers engineers simply because "our job is difficult from a technical perspective". Otherwise, doctors are engineers, athletes
by catnaroek 11y ago
Alas, society can't call us programmers engineers simply because "our job is difficult from a technical perspective". Otherwise, doctors are engineers, athletes are engineers, and suddenly the term "engineer" doesn't mean anything anymore.
I do think we programmers in general deserve more respect from society at large for what we do, but pretending to be something we are not (engineers) doesn't help our case.
- pluma 11y agoCounter-point: until my country adopted the BA/MA system, the typical outcome of studying computer science would be a degree that literally contains the word "engineer". Job titles are a cultural thing and mostly cosmetic. Most engineers don't do much engineering in their actual job.