Precisely, I don't understand why people get constantly worked up with this. Is _all_ software development engineering? No, of course not. If you are banging o

Precisely, I don't understand why people get constantly worked up with this. Is _all_ software development engineering? No, of course not. If you are banging out CRUD clone #432 then no, you are not an engineer, you are more of a technician (a programmer in our case). But, consider this, could you design all of Google's infrastructure without applying engineering principles (most likely derived from computer science and computer engineering)? Or perhaps you write and design complex embedded software to fly satellites, where you have to combine knowledge from multiple branches of science. Isn't that engineering? The answer, as most everything else in life, is "it depends".