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TIL Walter Bright is actually an Aerospace Engineer.

I had always assumed that (as a compiler guru) you had a CS background. :)

> Bright is the son of the air force pilot Charles D. Bright.[4][5] Bright graduated from Caltech in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering.[6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

So often I come to HN and just read random comments from random people with out realizing that I'm listening to ACTUAL experts. It is rather humbling to know I get to talk to awesome people.

Here is Walter's wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright

He went to Caltech, studied Aerospace Engineering, wrote many books, has given lots of presentations

For my own notoriety, I am a large clam that has slaved away at data for 10 years in Financial Services. I'm about to quit my job for a TOTALLY AWESOME job somewhere else

I'm guessing that the CS stuff is more intellectually challenging.

Why would you guess that?

If you have friends in mechanical engineering, ask them to join you on a visit day at their workplace or any other place with engineering. That will change your mind.

When I was at Stevens everyone piled into CompEng and EE, kind of looking down on ME (and CS actually). To this day my ME friends are some of the smartest, coolest people I know.

Yep same here. Also people doing ME ah a hobby (so I guess not engineering in the legal sense)

Yeah, you need ME to do any useful things in the real world. Like try repeatedly making the same robot without any MEs on your team.

The best thing about being an ME at Boeing is working with the old guys who knew what they were doing.

I don't know. Look at self-driving cars. The mechanics is trivial compared to the CS stuff.

CS has interesting things going on but I doubt it's more intellectually challenging than designing airplanes and spaceships... The expression was never "this is like computer science" for a good reason.

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