I don't mean that all of what we do is soft. I mean about 50℅ of it (in my case anyway, the rest I spend on data structure design, performance, testing, maintai

I don't mean that all of what we do is soft. I mean about 50℅ of it (in my case anyway, the rest I spend on data structure design, performance, testing, maintainability etc etc.) I'm saying that it is more like architecture than civil eng. Because it has such a large soft design component it will always elude a hard engineering approach.