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Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015) by pjmlp on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:18AM (#20013960)
Thing is, it is regulated, sadly not enough world wide.

Back in Portugal no one can call themselves Engineers if their degree wasn't done at an university validated by the Order.

And even then, you are only allowed to sign certain kinds of projects after getting the professional title.

Naturally coders, with roles similar to construction workers, can be anything.

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Re:Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015) by leoedin on Sunday May 26, 2019 @06:12AM (#20014138)
I think software development is a wide range of things, all the way from hacking on WordPress plugins to safety critical software. "engineering" comes in somewhere on that spectrum. Some software development is engineering, but not all is.
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