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		chrisseaton on Jan 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are We Really Engineers? > There is something special about software engineering that deserves a bit of thought - the discipline is all of 20-30 years old 20-30 years? You think software engineering began in 1990 at the earliest? Common production software, GCC for example, is older than that.

Dudeman112 on Jan 19, 2021 [–]

Maybe he meant 70s-80s?

God knows 10 years ago is always gonna feel like 1990.

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