Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!pesnta!scc!steiny From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Software Engineers Message-ID: <191@scc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 19:18:21 EST Article-I.D.: scc.191 Posted: Fri Oct 19 19:18:21 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Oct-84 02:49:18 EST References: <737@u1100a.UUCP> <1436@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <1195@hao.UUCP> <> <304@digi-g.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 27 Xref: 6096 6336 > 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!! -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/