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[Bear Giles]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> Civil Engineers built to real standards, or people die.  Electronics 
> or RF engineers build to standards that WORK, or they can't sell their 
> products.  Both also have to consider the human interface aspects of 
> their work.
A core difference is that 1) the desired outcome is precisely defined 
and 2) not casually changed.  Where you have that, e.g., server side, 
the quality can be quite good.  Where you don't get it, e.g., 
market-driven software, you don't.   But that's true everywhere -- the 
engineers just have the ability to say that the latter isn't 'engineering'.