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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software engineers
Message-ID: <1960@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 9 May 89 11:42:56 GMT
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In article <4167@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason) writes:
> and other atributes supposedly lacked by *>mere<* CS grads....
> 
> I do not mean to flame the writer of the inserted article, but.....
> 

Nonsense.  You read the article with a chip on your shoulder.  Being
a software engineer isn't a function of what the piece of paper says
or the name of the department is.  Here we have many software engineers
and the degrees include EE, Physics, Math, CS, ...

Now I think that the distinction between software engineers and
programmers varies a lot because neither term is well-defined, but
the posting made its terms reasonably clear.