Timeline for Who was the first software engineer?
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| Nov 21, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | jk. | pretty sure dijkstra would have been horified to be called a software engineer. | |
| Nov 21, 2017 at 21:12 | history | edited | Thomas Owens♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 27, 2012 at 15:05 | history | edited | Thomas Owens♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2012 at 17:17 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=28988 by developer User.Id=42748 | |
| May 23, 2012 at 21:55 | comment | added | Thomas Owens♦ | @GrahamLee That is true, however their work led to software engineering as not only a profession, but by the late 1990s, an academic discipline in its own right. Straw men typically get built up and (no pun intended) fleshed out, and that's exactly what happened. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 21:40 | comment | added | user4051 | "The widely accepted beginning to software engineering as a profession was at the NATO Science Committee conference in 1968 in Garmisch, Germany." though the committee used the term as a straw man, as noted in the extract quoted in programmers.stackexchange.com/a/149886/4051. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 19:17 | history | edited | Thomas Owens♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2012 at 18:15 | history | answered | Thomas Owens♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |