[leesalminen]

Same here. I was just talking with a friend last night about how software developers should have a creed, like how doctors have the Hippocratic oath. We could potentially cause far more harm than doctors nowadays.

[mamp]

Interesting, but note that the Hippocratic Oath doesn't work so well with preventable errors in health care the 3rd leading cause of death in the US https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...

[bthdonohue]

As part of my computer science program in college, we studied the ACM's Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, which in effect is what you describe. http://www.acm.org/about/se-code

[cmrx64]

And as an aside, the ACM is currently collecting comments on revisions to their code of conduct. http://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/code-2018/