5 Feb
2002
5 Feb
'02
14:15
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Gary Stainburn wrote:
There is a growing shortage of *good* programmers and software engineers (is there a difference?)
I would say that there is. I would expect a programmer to be able to take a specification and, from that, design and implement a program to meet the specification. I would expect a software engineer to be able to come up with the specification as well as doing the design and implementation. You could look at it as "programmers write code, software engineers build products". Just my opinion. YMMV. Michael