Given below is the link of a very interesting interview of one of the living legends of the software development field, Prof. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, http://www.stroustrup.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup. I found this statement of Stroustrup (in the interview) to be quite insightful as well as visionary, "I see software development as a potentially noble profession, like medicine or some of the classical engineering disciplines, but we still have a long way to go to get there."
The article is dated Dec. 2013, ‘We need better balance between theory and practice’, Bjarne Stroustrup, Father of C++. http://yourstory.com/2013/12/bjarne-stroustrup-interview/#.
I think it will be really great if software development practitioners view their profession with the maturity and responsibility that medical practitioners & engineering professionals view their professions. Of course, there are some bad apples among medical practitioners & engg. professionals too, especially in economically developing countries including India, but overall they are a far more accountable & responsible set of people, with that accountability being mandated by law in many cases.
The article is dated Dec. 2013, ‘We need better balance between theory and practice’, Bjarne Stroustrup, Father of C++. http://yourstory.com/2013/12/bjarne-stroustrup-interview/#.
I think it will be really great if software development practitioners view their profession with the maturity and responsibility that medical practitioners & engineering professionals view their professions. Of course, there are some bad apples among medical practitioners & engg. professionals too, especially in economically developing countries including India, but overall they are a far more accountable & responsible set of people, with that accountability being mandated by law in many cases.
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