On 08/31/2018 05:09 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
It's precisely for this reason that the title "software engineer" makes me cringe on the one hand, and snicker on the other hand. I honestly cannot keep a straight face when using the word "engineering" to describe what a typical programmer does in the industry these days.
Science is the reverse-engineering of reality to understand how it works. Engineering is the practical application of scientific knowledge.
I don't know, maybe those are simplified, naive definitions. But I've long been of the opinion that programming is engineering...*if* and only if...you're doing it right.
Of course, my background is primarily from programming itself, not from an existing engineering field, so I certainly won't claim that what I do necessarily qualifies as "engineering", but it is something I try to aspire to, FWIW.
