It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest.

Old, but fun read that argues that today’s programmers are not like typical Engineers and shouldn’t really call themselves that as Engineering requires certification, is subject to government regulation, bear a burden to the public, etc.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    No worries. Think I’ll call myself an author as the source code is a text that can amount to a copyrighted work.

    Hopefully this will not conflict with another field and and we can put this issue to rest.

    • jonathanEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      It’s literally common practice to refer to the person who wrote some code as the author of it.