Comments by "" (@brownhorsesoftware3605) on "What Is A Software Engineer? | Craftsmanship Movement Was A "Step Backwards"" video.

  1. For me, software is like Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, with two faces: one looks to the machine, the other looks to the person. The face looking to the machine is an engineer. The face looking to the person is a writer. (Looking to (not at) as in 'in service of'.) The material of software engineering is logic.
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  2. I think you might be using craft in a very specific way rather than in its more general use to describe something one practices to get better at. Such as 'writing is a craft'. I find the comparison to childhood creations off the point. Software is so ephemeral that it works like a mirror- descriptions of it often illuminate the describer more than the described. So, since my my major was literature, I have always treated software development like any other writing assignment. And that has worked very well.
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