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> How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules, governing bodies, or anything to stipulate what true Software Engineering is? So
by mywittyname 5y ago
> How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules, governing bodies, or anything to stipulate what true Software Engineering is?
So the world had no engineers before the creation of governing bodies? That doesn't sound right to me. Thus, I think this person's definition needs some tweaking.
- julianlam 5y agoNot quite, a governing body is what stipulates who can be called an engineer and who cannot (at least this is the case in Canada.) Certainly those who did engineering-like work existed before governing bodies, you just never really knew whether they were any good, because there was no minimum set of competency defined. Ironically, one might say this is what software development is like right now! It is both a blessing and a curse, the accessibility of modern software development is what makes it so great, pitfalls and all.