It's fun to imagine that somewhere sometime a scrawny geek told a chiseled-jaw pilot "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"
That may have been my late father's fantasy. He was the lead engineer at Boeing Military for much of the B-52's avionics. He was not a man much given to resentments and anger, but he strongly disliked USAF pilots, and it was clear the other engineers did as well. They apparently are quite the prima donnas, and arrogant in the extreme.
This engineers vs. pilots trope goes back to the days of the space program. Tom Wolfe talked about it in _The Right Stuff_.
That may have been my late father's fantasy. He was the lead engineer at Boeing Military for much of the B-52's avionics. He was not a man much given to resentments and anger, but he strongly disliked USAF pilots, and it was clear the other engineers did as well. They apparently are quite the prima donnas, and arrogant in the extreme.
This engineers vs. pilots trope goes back to the days of the space program. Tom Wolfe talked about it in _The Right Stuff_.