Other engineering disciplines are very conservative. Due to age, this doesn't compare well to software. There is tradition, but a lot of it military in origin,

Other engineering disciplines are very conservative. Due to age, this doesn't compare well to software. There is tradition, but a lot of it military in origin, not civil: ARPA net, Grace Hopper, and the first bug, Turing and the Enigma. Stealworking as a military secret in comparison is thousands of years old. And so far, leaked DB content has per the official record not killed anyone ... perhaps a few astronauts but none of the people responsible in place to fix it, as would be the case in a family of incorporated electricians. We need a code-code.