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Many programmers like to insist that they're engineers and at the same time come up with excuses for why they shouldn't be held to the same standards as other t
by vernie 8y ago
Many programmers like to insist that they're engineers and at the same time come up with excuses for why they shouldn't be held to the same standards as other types of engineers.
- golemiprague 8y agoSoftware development is more like a craft rather than engineering. If you are willing to pay for an app the same money you pay for a bridge than you will get the same quality and rigorous checking. But even then, there are less than 10 types of bridges in the world comparing to software which has to simulate every human activity and sometimes imaginary activities like games, all that in much higher levels of complications, constant changes of requirements and infinitely open for later changes through the life time of the application. Do you really think you can compare those two things?
- Retra 8y agoSome of us just want to be engineers but know full well how difficult that actually is and want to be paid well enough to seriously research that problem. Thus most of us are experimentalists and prototype engineers, not ones making claims strong enough to be liable for.