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What would software programming look like as a true engineering discipline?

• rjbwork 12y ago
  (my bias as a C# dev will show here) Most likely a professional association, with a test you have to take to call yourself a software engineer demonstrating basic competency in a couple of paradigms, and a rudimentary knowledge of patterns and practices. It's 2015, there's no reason that anyone should be writing Big Object Oriented Code, without practicing dependency injection, basic mocking and testing, and other modern development principles. And yet, here we are, with millions to billions of lines of terrible new code written every year.