Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Is there a term for all tasks around programming? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:46:15 +1200 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <9e49goFtsrU2@mid.individual.net> References: <4e7aff26$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4e7c5b5d$0$16775$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> <9e36u4FtsrU1@mid.individual.net> <4e7c6952$0$16755$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net hphFv/5JTebfZ2/OVJDrRgV7pA0ZGTVgTdc0wHgIfgKb5Iwj80 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+p31ZitxoNvQmFqznpdGPbRhN5g= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <4e7c6952$0$16755$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:10442 On 09/23/11 11:11 PM, Rui Maciel wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: > >> So those of us with Electronic Engineering degrees (including members of >> professional bodies) aren't engineers either? > > It really depends on what you are doing. Not everything a > civil/structural/mechanical/aeronautical/etc engineer does is engineering. > > Nevertheless, the level of restrictions and assurances that a society > requires in order to grant someone the ability to exercise the practice of > "engineering" (i.e., the license), along with the civil and criminal > responsibility it imposes on those who practice it, is a good litmus test to > see if a field is in fact engineering. You have a very weird view of the world. -- Ian Collins