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Re:Iron Ring by damoncali on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @05:16PM (#5670857)
As a programmer who was once an engineer by trade, I would say the difference is that engineering implies manipulation of the pysical sciences, where programming is just logic.
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Re:Iron Ring by lholden on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @02:06AM (#5672793)
"Just logic" I think really underplays things. That logic ends up in flight control systems, valve control for oil rigs, power grid management, robotics, factory automation, satellites, etc. A lot of software programming has very physical implications.
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