On Friday, June 10, 2016 02:38:28 Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 21:54:05 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 21:46:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> Programming is a mix of engineering and craft. There are > >> people who do research into programming theory, and those are > >> computer scientists. I'm not one of them. Andrei is. > > > > Unfortunately, the term "software engineer" is a LOT less > > popular than "computer scientist". > > How so? I only hear people use the term "programmer" or > "informatics".
I assume that you're not from the US? In the US at least, professional programmers are almost always referred to officially as software engineers (though they use the term programmers informally all the time), whereas the terms computer science and computer scientist are generally reserved for academics. And while the term informatics (or very similar terms) are used in several other languages/countries, I've never heard the term used in the US except to mention that some other languages/countries use the term informatics for computer science, and I'm willing to bet that relatively few programmers in the US have ever even heard the term informatics. - Jonathan M Davis
