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There is a very big difference between a software "engineer" and a real engineer. I personally think that picking the word "engineer" to describe our professio

• mwcampbell 10y ago
  There is indeed a difference, but I don't think it makes us software developers look very good. Shouldn't we at least aspire to the same level of professionalism and quality that good engineers have achieved?
  • dudul 10y ago
    > Shouldn't we at least aspire to the same level of professionalism and quality that good engineers have achieved? My point was that we cannot really, because we are not engineers. Nothing in what we do is even close to what civil engineers do for example. Neither our tools, nor our workflows, or our constraints, really nothing. I think the day we decided to call ourselves "engineers" we made a mistake, that's it.
  • pkolaczk 10y ago
    My father is a mechanical engineer and he says the amount of problems in the designs he reviews is very high, contrary to popular beliefs. There are often multiple rounds required to clean things up and some problems are discovered at build time. Buildings and bridges are not falling down because they are much less complex and more similar to each other than software projects.
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