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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software engineers
Message-ID: <4642@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 20:57:13 GMT
References: <716@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <716@ecrcvax.UUCP>, by periklis@ecrcvax.UUCP (Periklis Tsahageas):
> Flame on !
> 
> In article <854@odyssey.ATT.COM> gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman) writes:

>>(By the way, I am using "software engineer" as synonymous with
>>"programmer."
> Great mistake, sounds like a voice from the past.
>

True. I could not agree more.

People who call themselves "software engineers" usually can't program
worth squat.  Give them five or ten years.  They usually start calling
themselves programmers about the time they start to catch on.  I made
the crossover about four years ago.  (Part of a general ego-reduction
plan. But you know how it goes... It's easy to take it off. It's keeping
it off that's the problem.)