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[Discuss] Programming vs Engineering



On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 04:37:42PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone have any comment?
> 
> Yeah, but it's more rant than anything else.  You've been warned.
> 
> The title "Engineer" has a specific, legal meaning.  

It also has several other non-legal meanings, all of which are
perfectly correct, and at least one of which applies to what we do
with software.  Anyone whose business card says they're a software
engineer probably is, in fact, a professional software engineer.

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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