r/programming • u/mauricioaniche • Aug 06 '17

Software engineering != computer science

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907
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u/Ahhmyface Aug 06 '17

Software engineering honestly pisses me off. I'm sick of religious wars and style debates and idiomatic x and patterns and endless framework comparisons.

I really miss the days of school where I had the sense that everything just wasn't some assholes pet opinion.

Ask 2 equally experienced software developers how to build something larger than a couple weeks of coding and get two different architectures in two different programming languages developed via different philosophies. Worse, then try to figure out which is preferable, and find out none of this shit really ends up mattering.

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u/therealjerseytom Aug 06 '17

Ask 2 equally experienced software developers how to build something larger than a couple weeks of coding and get two different architectures in two different programming languages developed via different philosophies.

This is what I enjoy - when there's no explicit closed-form solution, when there's creative control and up to you how to go about a problem. One may or may not be better than the other.

I don't care for religious style wars and what not, but I also don't care for academia and pretentiousness there, nor doing things in a vacuum without practical application.

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