Re:Ask HN: Do you call yourself a software engineer or softw...
by SayWhatIMean on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:53PM
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Wikipedia says engineering's original meaning is from latin:
>meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare
>meaning "tocontrive, devise"
In the US the title of Engineer is not reserved except in a few very specific instances and the argument about whether software creation is engineering needs to first agree on what engineering is, a very open question and one that seems largely uninteresting to me.
In my own head I think of myself much more as a logician/mathematician than I do an engineer, but I bet you couldn't guess/interpret that from the output.