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From: fwf27775@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (Fritz W Feuerbacher)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax... (was Re: Any research
 putting c above ada?)
Date: 1997/05/24
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Kaz Kylheku (kaz@vision.crest.nt.com) wrote:

: I much prefer terms like software developer, software designer: at least these
: convey what the job is about. 

I prefer to be called a Software Engineer.  I worked my ass off getting my
dregree and I feel I am an engineer of software.

: Real engineers _build_ a product, they don't _write_ it. The end products of
: real engineering can't be transmitted over data networks nor duplicated ad
: nauseum onto magnetic media.

Computer Engineers are the ones that designed that network or floppy drive
to enable the copying of data.

: This realization doesn't make me uncomfortable. I accept the inherent validity
: and legitimacy of what I do.

The words are a method of differentiating a professional position.  We
could all call ourselves hackers but most of our customers would tend to
look elsewhere.