blog: Overlooked Essentials for Optimizing Code

[BCS]

Hello Bruno,

> Which degree did 'Software engineers' take then?
> 

You know, that's one thing that kinda irks me: Why is it called 'Software 
engineers' when I've never seen engineering taught in a CS course (not to 
be confused with real "computer engineering" courses that are a lot more 
like EE than CS). The most direct example of this I know of is in "The Pragmatic 
Programmer": Item 18 is "estimate to avoid surprises" and then goes on to 
describe how to do that. Well, if programming were taught as an engineering 
discipline, that would be a pointless (if not insulting) comment because 
what it is advocating is so fundamental to engineering that it goes without 
saying.