Software people have dealt with nothing like the number of bodies buried under the Great Wall its engineers had. "Engineering" came from sappers, originally. E

Software people have dealt with nothing like the number of bodies buried under the Great Wall its engineers had. "Engineering" came from sappers, originally. Engineers work for insurers. For the moment, software engineers work for people other than insurers. I'm not quite ready to turn my culture over to the actuaries just yet.