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Except it's is the only field that believes CS an SE are the same thing.

You don't expect a mechanical engineer to know the chemistry of a steel melt, and you don't expect a chemist to know about engines.

Yet in CS we either teach the detailed chemistry and expect the student to pick up the engineering themselves - or we teach just engineering without explaining what a metal is

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