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Why do civil engineers want to be called engineers? They don't work with engines. Computing is full of metaphors. There are also software architects, who don't
by mike_hearn 2y ago
Why do civil engineers want to be called engineers? They don't work with engines.
Computing is full of metaphors. There are also software architects, who don't design buildings, but "software designer" is not the term the industry settled on. Nobody would care if it did, it just didn't.
- defrost 2y agoNeither ingeniare nor ingenium are scope limited to mechanical engines.
- Maxatar 2y agoEngineer does not come from engine, rather both words are derived from the Latin word ingeniator, which means to devise.
- mike_hearn 2y agoTIL, thanks! But then if that's what it originally means, it seems pretty appropriate for what software engineers do?