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Re:Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015) by KevinMS on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:49AM (#37232990)
I never thought of it as engineering. Its the act of describing to a computer exactly what you want, and simultaneously explaining to readers what is happening. Sounds a lot more like writing to me.
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Re:Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015) by okaleniuk on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @04:20AM (#37233219)
There is a notion that programming is an extreme kind of poetry. Like with haiku, where there are rules, and the rules are formal, you can ratify an ISO standard on haiku rules; but they only support the structure and not the sense.
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