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"Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering
The software update
"Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering is a developing story worth watching.
Why software matters
This development in software, engineering, engineering matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that Hacker News and others have been working from.
What led here
Hacker News notes that this did not emerge in isolation; pressures have been building around software.
Where this fits in Signal Ledger
Related coverage from the Technology desk.
The editorial angle
We follow software, engineering, engineering for the questions that stories like this force into the open, not just for the answers they provide.
Source note
Hacker News reporting: https://web.archive.org/web/20050615235108/http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/science.htm