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It's also typically not an Engineering degree so maybe we should stop calling it that.
by innguest 11y ago
It's also typically not an Engineering degree so maybe we should stop calling it that.
- seiji 11y agoYou are correct, but it's still the name of an entire field of study. When things have names, we have to use the names the things have when talking about them. The initial page for it on wikiepdia is interesting too (November 14, 2001): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Software_engineering&oldid=334847426 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Software_engineer... Especially: Methods have improved through the 1980s and 1990s, but the complexity in requirements have increased fast enough to consume any improvement. There is also a constant eagerness to develop new tools and try the newest tools in each new project. If the programmers are good, the system will work, and the customer will not fully appreciate how complex the task was.