Software Engineering is only about 60 years old - i.e. the term has existed.
At the point in the history of civil engineering, they didn't even know what a right angle was.
Civil engineers were able to provide much utility before the underlying theory was available. I do wonder about the safety of structures at the time.
> Software Engineering is only about 60 years old - i.e. the term has existed.
Perhaps as a documented term, but the practice is closer to roughly 75+ years. Still, IMHO there is a difference between those who are Software Engineers and those whom claim to be so.
> At the point in the history of civil engineering, they didn't even know what a right angle was.
I strongly disagree with this premise, as right angles were well defined since at least ancient Greece (see Pythagorean theorem[0]).
> Civil engineers were able to provide much utility before the underlying theory was available.
Eschewing the formal title of Civil Engineer and considering those whom performed the role before the title existed, I agree. I do humbly suggest that by the point in history to where Civil Engineering was officially recognized, a significant amount of the necessary mathematical and materials science was available.
