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Re:Why Software Engineering Isn’t Engineering by rb2k_ on Sunday June 07, 2015 @10:40AM (#9674781)
I don't have a particular dog in this fight, but I thought this is interesting:

The last O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference had a talk by Glenn Vanderburg titled "why software development is an engineering discipline":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEpeWQHtFU

I think the author of the blogpost does a lot of the things discussed in the talk (e.g. comparing it mostly to civil engineering as opposed to all the other engineering disciplines).

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Re:Why Software Engineering Isn’t Engineering by iancackett on Sunday June 07, 2015 @10:50AM (#9674833)
Yes, very true. And I am also comparing the startup flavour of software development (which I am involved in), rather than perhaps other flavours, such as finance, health care, etc.
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