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Notable
Practitioners
Dan Bricklin, Steve McConnell Not applicable
Practitioners in
U.S.
680,000 25,000
Practitioners in
Rest of World
1,400,000? 50,000?
1.12.2 Comparing Engineering
The software-engineering community is about 60% as large as the rest of the
engineering community combined.
Software engineers aspire to build low-cost, reliable, safe products; much like
engineers in other disciplines do. Software engineers borrow many metaphors and
techniques from other engineering disciplines, including requirements analysis,
quality control, and project-management techniques. Engineers in other disciplines ...