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by zeveb 3383 days ago
I wonder if I should claim to be a Doctor of Software Development. Can we get an industry association to bestow that title?

Seriously, though, I think it's a real shame that so many professions claim to be doctors. A bachelor's degree shows initiation into a subject; a master's degree shows mastery of it; a doctorate indicates that one has increased the sum total of human knowledge in that subject. A doctorate should IMHO be rare.