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Will software engineering ever be engineering?

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Considering whether software engineering and engineering can share a profession.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 11
          November 2011
          109 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2018396
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