Engineering means lots of documentation. Catalogs of parts. "Red rubber balls", listing all the variations and properties. Standard forms of documentation. Nee

Engineering means lots of documentation. Catalogs of parts. "Red rubber balls", listing all the variations and properties. Standard forms of documentation. Need to describe a file format? Here is a prescribed way to do that. So yes, software is not engineering yet. I think the reason is that component interoperability problem remains unsolved. The aim of OOP was that; at least Brad Cox saw it this way. One of entries in his blog said something like "software product related to security should not provide security; it should provide tools to build a secure system".