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What Is Engineering?
I have been talking to people about software engineering for some years now. As a result I regularly get involved in a surprising number of conversations about bridge building. They usually start with the phrase “Yes, but software isn’t bridge building” as though this was some kind of revelation.
Of course, software engineering is not the same as bridge building, but what most software developers think of as bridge building isn’t like real bridge building, either. This conversation is really a form of confusion between production engineering and design engineering.
Production engineering is a complex problem when the discipline involved is dealing with physical things. You need to get those physical things created to certain ...
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