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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf72ca9e8a6b3cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: Software Engineering in Florida Date: 1999/11/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 546116195 References: <38273B63.D37BF760@pwfl.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 942103734 206.170.24.105 (Mon, 08 Nov 1999 15:28:54 PST) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 15:28:54 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >what we do, that doesn't make us necessarily "engineers". Lawyers, Beauticians, Sorry, I thought the discussion was about licensing. If it's about naming, then, as one who has done pretty much the same thing while being name "programmer", "systems analyst", and now "software engineer", I'll continue letting other folks call me whatever they want. > Nobody licenses or regulates politicians. Yet they are the absolute most "X is licensed for reason Y" doesn't imply that Z, to whom reason Y also applies, should/will be licensed. Not to mention the practical difficulties of having the incumbents write the rules for who can replace them, or "thwarting the will of the people" if some unusually bad candidate was elected, but not allowed to take office.