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And personally I think in the occasional interminable "oh wouldn't it be wonderful if programmers were real engineers like architects" threads, where people fail to understand those processes used by other engineering disciplines

If the software industry had the equivalent of "general contractors" who pour the concrete, wire the rebar, dig and fill the holes, install the electrical and duct, laid the bricks, all to within the tolerances specified; AND had architects who knew both the tools available and the domain inside and out, a model mirroring the real estate industry MIGHT BE doable. But there are a lot of differences beyond just the "engineering" aspects (and often times, the head engineer on a project is not the architect).




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