Ah yes, what C needs is VTABLEs.

My kid is learning HTML so… maybe?

That’s missing the point. Engineers perform at a specific level. You don’t expect civil engineers to build the bridge. Can they do it? Sure. But that’s not the profession. Same with Structural Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Industrial Engineers, etc. They are at a higher level in the planification and execution process and will likely have signatory responsibilities on the project. If the bridge falls, the engineer does have explaining to do.

The equivalent for a software engineer would be (in the US) more at the level of architect with responsibilities higher than developers.

But engineers is not a protected term so everyone is an engineer now.

They’re regulating engineering of software and electronics.

From Engineers Canada;

In the case of software engineering, a piece of software (or a software-intensive system) can therefore be considered an engineering work if both of the following conditions are true:

• The development of the software required “the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.”

• There is a reasonable expectation that failure or inappropriate functioning of the system would result in harm to life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare, or the natural environment.

That does seem to me well defined. If you disagree then it’s okay.

Edit: taken from this: https://engineerscanada.ca/sites/default/files/public-policy/professional-practice-software-engineering-en.pdf which also add context.

I cannot speak about electronics as my education was in software engineering.

Software development is done by developers. If you are a software engineer chances are you’re working on software infrastructure that actually apply at scales that are not “add a shopping cart to this blog”.

There are reasons you ask a civil engineer for work.

It’s a good thing that Engineer is a protected profession and not everyone can claim it, like Lawyer or Doctor.

In the US now it’s “oh you’re an engineer? Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”

Yep the ASCII table just goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, …

“He’s me.” - Obi Wan Kenobi

Data Link layer be pretty stable to be fair ^_

Sounds like your gripe is with people requiring accounts for reading public content, and not with preventing usage of automated email creation and trying to limit bots on your website.

We were discussing validation, not parsing. There’s no parsing in an email. You might give it a type once it passes validation, but an email is just a string with an @ in it (and likely some . because you want at least 1 TLD but even that I’m not sure).

There are also cases where you want to have a disallow list of known bad email providers. That’s also part of the parsing and validating.

Alternatively, I don’t think that not educating AI is an option.

So are we not calculating the amount of training the junior dev took?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_line

How about using years? “This OS runs on 80s hardware” is still impressive, understandable, and wrong.

MKV (the video container file format) uses binary XML. Look it up.

Wasn’t PayPal coded in PHP? That might explain a lot of things…

Compiler, give me all the language extensions you have. Wait, wait. I’m worried what you just heard was, “Give me a lot of language extensions.” What I said was, “Give me all the language extensions you have.” Do you understand?

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Plenty of modern languages use the unit type; typescript, Rust, not sure you consider Haskell a modern language.

From the look of it, this language seems to use it in a function signature declaration, which would make sense.