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"Software Development" to the exclusion of other programming and scripting?

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The site is called "Software Development", and the subtitle on the homepage is "General Q&A about software development -- code, design, process, tools, testing, and more".

Am I to understand, then, that it's about software development to the exclusion of other programming and scripting? Can I not, for example, ask about a sed script I use to process text files, or a SQL query I use to process data?

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Peter Taylor‭ wrote over 3 years ago

In what way is writing a sed script not software development? The only grey issue I can see with the quoted subtitle is firmware programming.

msh210‭ wrote over 3 years ago · edited over 3 years ago

@PeterTaylor maybe I am mistaken (I'm certainly no expert in the field) but "software" to me connotes a program file is shared with others to run -- or something like that, I'm not sure exactly. I do know this: I write SQL queries all the time in my work (and Perl or Python or R scripts sometimes) and I certainly don't think of my work as software development.

Kami‭ wrote over 3 years ago

I certainly agree that software development is a bad title. IMHO this excludes things like SQL, shell, MATLAB