The idea is spreading that perhaps software development is simply incompatible with engineering; that software developers are not, and never will be, real engineers. Glenn Vanderburg, VP of Engineering at First, takes a fresh look at what that really should mean for this field. With an extra 45 years of experience about the task of programming, and a broad survey of the varied different engineering disciplines, can we envision a future for a field of “software engineering” that is worthy of the name?
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