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However you define your ethics, programming covers such a large spectrum that you can't objectively assert those areas never intersect.
by tempodox 9y ago
However you define your ethics, programming covers such a large spectrum that you can't objectively assert those areas never intersect.
- walshemj 9y agoAnd if we accept that developers are "engineers" (no arguments about chartered or PE status) then the IEEE is quite clear that engineers do have do behave in an ethical way.
- jimmaswell 9y agoIEEE might say that but they're not the definitive authority on age old ethics debates. If you know you're programming ransomware, that's one thing, but it's not always so black and white.
- walshemj 9y agoThey are for engineering just as the BMA or AMA are for doctors - just because you ain't a CE /PE doesn't mean you should not follow the same precepts.