The notion of a regulated Engineering profession really came about when some very famous bridges started to collapse under load. In response to this, there was public outrage and distrust in governmental projects such as bridges. Thus, the government conceived a program where engineering labor supply is regulated through training and association standards.
Unless software creates such a large loss of life and disruption that the public has a similar outrage. The government will not act to regulate programming. In addition, it's neither in programmers or companies best interests to be regulated (except for programmers that are good at programming and companies that would like to pay a higher price for labor in exchange for quality).
Unless software creates such a large loss of life and disruption that the public has a similar outrage. The government will not act to regulate programming. In addition, it's neither in programmers or companies best interests to be regulated (except for programmers that are good at programming and companies that would like to pay a higher price for labor in exchange for quality).