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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Re: Software Engineers
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 19:18:21 EST
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> Dan Messinger (Software Engineer)

	I took one programming class in college which I barely
passed.  My college degree is in linguistics, yet every company
I work for calls me a "software engineer".  I am on the board
of directors of a company and through no doing of my own, I am
listed as "VP of Engineering."   They do this because I write
complicated computer programs for the marketplace, port UNIX,
port compilers, and other highly technical things.  I am self-taught.

	I think that it is a marketing distinction.  It is not 
surprising that universities would organize their subject material
into categories that reflect the marketplace.  I resist the title.
Engineers build bridges, I am an artist!!




	
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