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Software Engineer

01 Saturday Mar 2014

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Opinion

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bit wrangler, byte wrangler, computer programmers, engineers, magnetic domains, silicon life forms, software design, software designer, software engineer, software maker

I don’t like the term Software Engineer. Real engineers have licenses and certifications and prescribed educations. No such exists (currently) for software makers. It is still a new craft in our society (it goes back only to the 1950s or so), and we haven’t caught up to how complex and demanding it really is. Anyone can use the term Software Engineer, so it doesn’t have the meaning it could.

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