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The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers, and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science. That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet ...

The people who create software generally refer to themselves as software engineers , and yet if they graduate from university, it is typically with a degree in computer science . That has always felt a little strange to me, because science and engineering are two pretty different disciplines – yet we for the most part seem to take such an obvious contradiction for granted. However, I think there is something uniquely magical about software, and part of that magic might stem from this tension in how we define it. At first glance, software seems like a straightforward engineering practice. After

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