Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.flame Subject: Re: Software Engineers (Hey, Kids! Massive Rationalization!) Message-ID: <1449@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 11:51:31 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.1449 Posted: Wed Oct 10 11:51:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 04:29:58 EDT References: <737@u1100a.UUCP> <1436@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <1195@hao.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 33 >> >> I am NOT an ANIMAL! I... AM... A... SOFTWARE... ENGINEER!!! >> >Oh, get off it! You're just a programmer, like everyone else >in the world. Yes, I used to think that "software engineer" was a term used in about the same way as "kitchen engineer" (i.e. "A rose by another other name..."); but now I is one.... :-) Actually, I have been wondering if there is an actual distinction between the terms. I've supposed that "software engineers" were a subset of programmers; they were people who worked on designing and developing software for computers during the construction of the computer (e.g. Operating Systems), as opposed to another subset who design software for already-constructed machines (e.g. application and system programmers?). But as in any real-world terminology, there is probably quite a bit of overlapping.... anyway, I was just wondering if the term had any specific job characteristics. Then again, maybe I'm just rationalizing... Look, why don't you just go back to calling me an animal... "...in an iron coffin, with spikes on the inside!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA