✧✦Catherine✦✧"are software engineers Real Engineers or not" is a pointless distraction. software engineers who don't know how to deal with guilt love to self-flagellate with it and other than that there's no basis in reality for that discourse. do something useful instead
nobody asks if electrical engineers are Real Engineers or not even though there's no licensing requirement for the vast majority of EE work and plenty of people do it quite successfully without so much as tertiary education
Andrew Zonenberg@whitequark i know an electrical engineering PE but generally that sort of licensing is only needed for like grid scale distribution work
@whitequark like if your system failing can knock out power to a major city they'll probably want whoever designs it to be a PE