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How different is a MechEng writing FORTRAN for mechanical engineering from a MechEng writing RoR for trendy widget bean button SV startup Because in scenario A
by gaius 9y ago
How different is a MechEng writing FORTRAN for mechanical engineering from a MechEng writing RoR for trendy widget bean button SV startup
Because in scenario A the main skill being applied is mechanical engineering and in scenario B the main skill being applied is RoR.
If everyone who ever writes a line of code is a "software developer" would you include an Excel VBA 10-liner writer? Probably not, and nor would that person include themselves, they're an accountant (or whatever).
- stochastic_monk 9y agoI don’t typically think of web developers as software engineers. I think of work like FFTW and the Tensor Algebra COmpiler (TACO) as software engineering.
- gaius 9y agoWhereas when I say "software engineering" I am referring to formal methods, or software components of engineered systems e.g. avionics. Nevertheless - the point is that lots of professions automate themselves. Now that I think about it even a doctor who invents a more effective treatment lessening the workload of other doctors is using medicine to automate medicine.