Keith Harrison-Broninski wrote:
> When I first came into IT, in the late 1980's, the British Computer
> Society was making an effort to get software engineers to certify as
> something equivalent to chartered engineers. This effort never came to
> much. But I think they had the right idea. Would you trust your health
> to a medical practitioner with either no professional accreditation or
> an accreditation only from one particular drugs company? Yet this is
> what organizations of all kinds are doing every day - trusting their
> health to software practitioners with the same level of "accreditation".
>
> Scary, isn't it, when you come to think about it.
I classify software creators into three types. Technicians, or programmers
know
how to write code. Architects know what they want to do. Engineers know what
code should be written to accomplish something specific.
Gregg Wonderly
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