Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015)

Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015) by rdiddly on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:46AM (#20013866)

An engineer is just someone who uses ingenuity. Same word. (ingenieur I believe)

Regulators should treat software as a licensed engineering discipline though.

Needs a [2015] in the title.

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Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015) by chirau on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:18AM (#20013962)

This is a very poor definition. Probably the poorest.

I wonder what your definition of a doctor is then.

Being a guilded engineer myself but now called a software engineer, I can tell you with absolute certainty that software engineers as defined by industry today do not make the cut.

They are the equivalent of witchdoctors to doctors. Make of that what you may and then tell me again what an engineer is and what software engineer is

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Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015) by rdiddly on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:23PM (#20016879)

The argument about the meaning of the word is a massive and stupid misdirection of attention. What counts is licensure. A point I already addressed.

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Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015) by dwaltrip on Sunday May 26, 2019 @08:23PM (#20018537)

Perhaps there are arguments that support your claim, but I don't see any in your comment.

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