Those other occupations have been regulated for a long time, so the training and verification practices have had time to mature. This is still the early days o

Those other occupations have been regulated for a long time, so the training and verification practices have had time to mature. This is still the early days of software development regulation, so there's not much history or tradition to fall back on -- I'm pretty sure that all the other industries had similar problems when their first regulations were enacted.