[CM30]

Perhaps because they're worried that the law would start requiring 'professional' accreditation to work in computer science?

Because at the moment, anything computer related is something you can teach yourself through practice and experience rather than something that necessarily needs a degree or credentials. You can obvious get a degree or what not, but it's not required.

The worry however is that professionalism could lead to a situation like with doctors or lawyers, where you need to be part of some professional body or have certain credentials to work in the field at all. And that it could make getting work in the field more difficult for newcomers as a result.

[kazinator]

Worse, in order to belong to this body you might have some particular ideology shoved down your throat about how computers ought to be programmed.

We can't have a professional accreditation, because there is no right or wrong best practice in computing. Obviously, making programs that are buggy and incomplete w.r.t their specifications is wrong, but if you don't do that, there is no one right way.

[flukus]

Are there any industries with authoritative right or wrong best practices?

[niels_olson]

> you can teach yourself...

Unfortunately, for this to work it requires informed leadership. I have seen senior leadership of many orgs grant essentially limitless power to "IT guys" who can't function outside the warm blanket of Microsoft services and are responsible for multi-billion $ enterprises without being able to recognize an SQL statement.