From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf72ca9e8a6b3cf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: claveman@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) Subject: Software Engineering in Florida Date: 1999/11/04 Message-ID: <1e0rgtb.6j187t1hibcsaN@[209.132.126.64]>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 544669192 X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 941774124 209.132.126.64 (Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:55:24 CDT) User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.4 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:55:24 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I was told several years ago, by someone who should know, that the Florida legislature had codified the term _engineer_, limiting it to practitioners of the classical engineering disciplines. The upshot was that anyone who called himself a software engineer was breaking the law. I like to mention this in a lecture on software design that I often give. Does anyone know if it's still true or has the definition been expanded to include software? Charlie -- To get my correct email address, replace the "claveman" by "csampson" in my fake (anti-spam) address.