On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:19 PM Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I fully agree concerning an engineering background.
>
> However, any good practitioner (with, like Heaviside, credentials
> equivalent to both academic intellectual education and practical field
> experience, irrespective of formal diplomata -- today, the diploma seems
> the most important and a Heaviside probably would be impossible) should
> have the requisite software engineering techniques and skills.  My

*Hah*. I studied bio-electrical engineering, computer courses were a
requirement but not the focus of my interest. A dozen years in the
field supporting lab systems gave enough expertise to provide
some..... expertise, enough to nearly double my income when I shifted
to private industry. There is a great deal of skilled engineering and
medicine that I'd much rather be performed by a less credentialed
person with more practical experience.