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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Insults
Message-ID: <89272.091121UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 29 Sep 89 13:11:20 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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What is it about people who have the word "engineer" in their title or
on their diploma that makes them so insulting to the rest of us?

So far, everything that people have said that engineers *do* is something that
lots of other people *do*, too.  Most people "design" their software,
"test it", "document it" and so on.  Do some of you really believe
that engineers have some sort of lock on good sense.

Anecdotes will not help this discussion.  I once know a programmer that...
proves only that you hang around with the wrong people.

Sure, it's true that a lot of Computer Science curriculums don't include
much of this stuff, but, surprise!, neither do many engineering programs.  This
is applied stuff specific to a particular job, and thus better left to
on the job training.

MY MAIN POINT

Don't insult me with a lot of unsubstatiated claims about how engineers
are superior to others.

                       lee