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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Software Engineering is not a hoax... (was Re: Any research
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William said

<<I'm what I consider to be a software engineer and I only spend about
10-15% of my time writing software.  The rest of it is to do with
documentation, design, version control, project management, bug reports,
etc etc.   At home though I'm a programmer!>>

I can only understand this if you replace "writing software" with
"coding". To me documentation, design, version control, project management,
bug reports etc etc are an *integral part* of what writing software is
all about.