having a CS degree doesn't make you an engineer
there are very few actual engineers working in software, and there's approximately zero real engineering happening in the industry
the term "software ...
Other than the fact that some of the actual license carrying engineers I've worked with are so immensely incompetent that they should commit sudoku lest they dishonour their entire bloodline with their continued existence, the idea of saying "no you can't just call yourself an engineer" that Canada enforces is a good one.
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