The difference is simple. We are not engineers for the same reason cheerleaders are not athletes. There is too much money to be made by trivializing the indus

The difference is simple. We are not engineers for the same reason cheerleaders are not athletes. There is too much money to be made by trivializing the industry and the players involved benefit greatly by lobbying against it being "real" engineering. Whats the difference between a skyscraper and pool house in terms of "real" engineering. Nothing. Whats the differene between a spacecrafts code engineering and a website. Nothing. There are just lower stakes and it is used as a straw-man against professionalizing the industry of software.