It’s a slow news day, so here’s a question for you: are you an engineer? No, don’t just point to your job title or your resume. I want to know if you’re really an engineer in the sense that you meet the criteria on this list from Dobbs Code Talk. Christopher Diggins titled the article “Programming is not an Art, Science, or Engineering Discipline,” which tells you where he stands on the issue — but it does leave open the question of what programming is if it isn’t any of those things. A hobby? (Speaking personally, my inner six-year-old only uses the word “engineer” to refer to people who operate trains.) Software Development