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From: raveling@venera.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software engineers
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Date: 13 May 89 01:21:31 GMT
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In article <743@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
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>Nonsense.  "Software engineer" is not synonymous with "programmer".  One of
>the differences between a software engineer and a programmer is that, while
>a programmer probably does spend 90% of his time debugging, a software
>engineer spends, maybe, 25% of his time debugging.  ...

	From what I've seen of both "programmers" and "software engineers",
	I'm inclined to think the distinction is more like the difference
	between a "garbage collector" and a "sanitation engineer".

	They do the same things in substantially the same ways, but
	one name sounds more impressive.  Remember when "programmers"
	were the elite and "coders" were the ones with less status?


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@isi.edu



	P.S.:

	If this seems a bit stale, or you're at ISI and it's a duplicate,
	that's because our newsfeed went read-only for a week or two.
	This is a repost of something that I believe didn't get out.