> I think that is justified by the way. Programming is a fad / fashion driven industry more than anything.
I do not disagree with the latter statement, but for the most part I consider myself a software engineer. I have a degree in CS, and my approach to making components for our systems is very much engineer like. I design, develop, test, evaluate, modify, install, inspect and maintain a system where I have applied science and theory to make to solution work. I have not have the pleasure to work with hardcore mathmaticians yet, but I hope I will some day.
I agree that developers that never touch the backbone and algorithms probably aren't doing engineering, at least not in the theory and science way, but saying that no developer is an engineer is wrong.
I do not disagree with the latter statement, but for the most part I consider myself a software engineer. I have a degree in CS, and my approach to making components for our systems is very much engineer like. I design, develop, test, evaluate, modify, install, inspect and maintain a system where I have applied science and theory to make to solution work. I have not have the pleasure to work with hardcore mathmaticians yet, but I hope I will some day.
I agree that developers that never touch the backbone and algorithms probably aren't doing engineering, at least not in the theory and science way, but saying that no developer is an engineer is wrong.