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From: db@cbosgd.UUCP (J. Muir)
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Subject: Re: Re: New Discussion (first meetings)
Message-ID: <1808@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 23:46:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 23:46:28 1986
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Reply-To: db@cbosgd.UUCP (J. Muir)
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In article <1777@hammer.UUCP> tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <446@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>
>>If you are a programmer who is practicing engineering while programming,
>>by all means call yourself an engineer.
>
>The problem with this is that you will make the people who have gone
>to the pain of getting an engineering degree mad at you.  (Would
>you go to someone who calls him/herself a "doctor", but wasn't?)
>

Hold on a just a minute here!  Since when are "programming" and
"engineering" mutually exclusive?  The institution from which I
hold my degrees happens to have its computer science department
in the college of engineering.  Would the holders of degrees in
computer science conferred by an engineering college be remiss
in referring to themselves as engineers?  (Especially when the
college has the same basic requirements {calculus, physics, etc.}
for all its majors?)

Dave Bursik/..cbosgd!db