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Subject:Re: Do you equate engineers and programmers? From:Laura Johnson <lauraj -at- CND -dot- HP -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 22 Aug 1994 15:05:17 GMT
Look folks, there is a discipline called "software engineering," and
there are people who hold engineering degrees and have taken dozens
of hours of programming classes. If you want to argue that "software
engineering" is not a good term, fine. If you want to talk about
electrical or mechanical or nuclear engineers who are bad programmers,
fine. But I'm getting tired of the argument that anyone who calls
himself an engineer must be a bad programmer.
