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Most web developers are not software engineers. They are bad programming handymen - errant, reckless, and ignorant of best practices. Software engineers can be
by debacle 14y ago
Most web developers are not software engineers. They are bad programming handymen - errant, reckless, and ignorant of best practices.
Software engineers can be web developers, but that doesn't mean all web developers are software engineers.
Disclaimer: I program for the web.
- asolove 14y agoMost people with the title "Software engineer" are not software engineers. I don't know that this is any more prevalent among web programmers than, say, Java programmers.
- angdis 14y agoOK, but the truth is most software engineers are not software engineers. "They are bad programming handymen- errant, reckless, and ignorant of best practices".
- debacle 14y agoI don't have enough knowledge to say whether that's true or not. Most C# programmers I meet, for example, are pretty competent compared to your average WordPress "programmer."