there is also a very good movie (the hustler, paul newman + jackie gleason) concerning these two characters. however, the movie connections aside -- i am not b

there is also a very good movie (the hustler, paul newman + jackie gleason) concerning these two characters. however, the movie connections aside -- i am not buying this "sw-engineering" equals "it's a paycheck"-mentality. IMHO, the two disciplines are not easily comparable, this mostly stems from the fact that CS deals with "computing in the small", while SWE deals with "computing in the large" (actually, more "programming" than "computing"). i think this is also a major reason that research areas in both disciplines are not overlapping (aside from code generation which obviously uses theory from compilers, i am mostly thinking in terms of product-lines and variability-handling; please post if you have other areas in mind that i fail to remember ad hoc) also please note: the mutual disregard for CS towards SWE and vice versa is actually counterproductive and i am sure that some interdisciplinary efforts could be mutually beneficial...