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Re:Are We Really Engineers? by chrisseaton on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:56PM (#25826528)
> There is something special about software engineering that deserves a bit of thought - the discipline is all of 20-30 years old

20-30 years? You think software engineering began in 1990 at the earliest?

Common production software, GCC for example, is older than that.

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Re:Are We Really Engineers? by Dudeman112 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:21AM (#25834233)
Maybe he meant 70s-80s?

God knows 10 years ago is always gonna feel like 1990.

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