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by SavageNoble 489 days ago
Have you met any software engineers?
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Nope. Tons of programmers, though.
I have an EE degree. Pleasure to meet you.
That's nice. Electrical engineering is engineering and "software engineering" is not.
Yet I write software 3:
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I had no idea there was an emoticon for "butthead." I'm going to start using this.

If an MD writes software, does that make it "software medicine"?
Did you choose not to give the reverse analogy upon discovering that EEs working on medicine are already called medical engineers?