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		blastonico on Oct 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? Real engineers drive trains and we don't do that. So we're not real engineers. :-)

zeroonetwothree on Oct 5, 2023 [–]

I would say it’s the train drivers that deviated from the original meaning (Latin: ingeniare, “to contrive or devise”)

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